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Gibson Girl - Wikipedia The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States [1]
How The Gibson Girl Came To Symbolize American Beauty In The 1890s Through his famed depictions of women playing tennis and golf, swimming, and riding bikes and horses, illustrator Charles Dana Gibson promoted the notion that a woman could be athletic and independent and still be considered fashionable
The Gibson Girl’s America: Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson Through depictions of young women bicycling, playing tennis and golf, horseback riding, swimming, and the like, Gibson and fellow illustrators helped promote the idea of the athletic girl as fashionable and socially acceptable
The Real Edwardian Gibson Girls of the USA - Glamour Daze See a 1904 film of real life Gibson girls brought to life with AI upscaling Charles Dana’s Gibson’s pen and ink illustrations of what was to become known as The Gibson Girl first appeared in Harper’s Weekly in the 1890’s Combining a tall and slender figure with an ample bosom and hips
America’s First Beauty Standard: the Gibson Girl The new Gibson Girls were one expression of this new found freedom and at the same became one of the first beauty standards for women in the 20th century Gibson’s cartoons became so in demand that at one point he was one of the highest paid illustrators of the era
Introduction - Gibson Girl: Topics in Chronicling America - Research . . . Artist and illustrator Charles Dana Gibson creates an image of the ideal American Girl, setting the standard of feminine beauty that endured for decades Gibson’s eponymous female character, the “Gibson Girl,” becomes popularly known throughout the United States as her look was widely emulated
Charles Dana Gibson - Illustration History The drawings of American society by Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) defined the age contemporaneously and retrospectively from the 1890s through the early 1900s His images of women, in particular, were so influential on the development of the American feminine style that the term "Gibson Girls" became part of the lexicon
The Gibson Girl - EyeWitness to History The "Gibson Girl" is probably the best remembered of the artist's images With her hair piled atop her head and a waist so tiny as to defy belief, the Gibson Girl represented a serene self-confidence that could surmount any problem
The Gibson Girl’s America: Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson From the 1890s until World War I, the glamorous Gibson Girl set the standard for beauty, fashion, and manners, bringing her creator unrivaled professional and popular success Gibson's artistic skills and prolific output meshed beautifully with the then high-volume demand for magazine illustrations