num_pages: 144
description: At the turn of the twentieth century Charles Dana Gibson's pen-and-ink drawings of the American Girl  now remembered as the Gibson Girl  became the national ideal of femininity. This collection of his images of youthful dynamic women offers an informative and arresting reflection of the era's social life. Sentimental humorous and often gently satirical these images portray the Gibson Girl at the theater in the drawing room flirting and courting vacationing at the beach and engaging in other genteel pursuits. Several of Gibson's common man illustrations provide a contrast along with a section devoted to one of the artist's best-known and most beloved characters the curmudgeonly Mr. Pipp.This gallery features more than 100 carefully selected images from vintage editions. A rich source of royalty-free art it offers graphic artists fashion designers social historians and nostalgia lovers a lovely and accurate chronicle of a bygone era.
language: English
title: The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson
publisher: Dover Publications