Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Charles Dana Gibson attended the Art Students League in New York, studying with Thomas Eakins and Kenyon Cox. Hugely successful at the turn of the century, he left New York from 1905 to 1907 to study painting in France, Spain, and Italy.
Gibson's name is still remembered for its association with the icon he created, the "Gibson Girl." This idealised, refined upper-middle-class woman became so popular that she was featured in stage plays, and her image was printed on a variety of domestic objects. The highest-paid illustrator of his time, in 1904 Gibson accepted a contract from Collier's Weekly, which paid him $100,000 for one hundred illustrations over four years. Gibson's illustrations gently satirised public life and mores. During World War I, as president of the Society of Illustrators, Gibson formed and became head of the Division of Pictorial Publicity under the Federal Committee of Public Information. Through this program, prominent illustrators were recruited to design posters, billboards, and other publicity for the war effort. His involvement with publicity during the war led Gibson to become owner and editor of Life, a New York-based magazine filled with short articles and illustrations. In the early 1930s Gibson retired in order to devote more time to painting.
For more information about Charles Dana Gibson see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 9 also.
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| 1906 Studies in Expression. When a Debutante meets eligible Young Men of her Mother's Acquaintance. Life Publishing Co. |
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| 1906 Studies in Expression. While a Spanish-American hero describes the horrors of war. Life Publishing Co. |
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| 1906 The Gibson Girl - Sketches. lithograph |
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| 1906 The Overworked American Father. His Day Off in August.Life Publishing Co. |
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| 1906c Between times, Leicester Square pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1906c Gibson Girl from The Gibson Book Volume 1 published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York |
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| 1906c Lost pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1907 Advertisement for The American Queen magazine |
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| 1907 At a Comedy |
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| 1907 At Three In The Afternoon. "'Hello, old man! Been up all night?" "No; I'm going to take a Harlem Girl to a Theatre Party in Brooklyn." Life Publishing Co. |
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| 1907 Gibson Girls |
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| 1907 Too Late? |
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| 1907c Home again - as the Steamer docks pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1907c The Wonders of Palmistry In which he is told that he will marry a blonde who loves him, but he will have to speak quick. |
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| 1908 Life magazine cover April 19 1908 |
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| 1909 Collier's magazine cover September 23 1909 |
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| 1909 Collier's magazine cover October 30 1909 |
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| 1909 Gibson Girl |
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| 1909 Girl sitting in a chair |
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| 1909 No Time for Politics P.F. Collier & Son |
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| 1909 The Day Dream |
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| 1909 The Sign Painter |
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| 1909c A Daughter of the South pen and ink 57 x 40 cm (sheet) Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1909c Effect of the Marathon Craze pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1909c One of our Leisure Class pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1909c The Debutante |
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| 1910 A Ballad of Olden Days |
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| 1910 Collier's magazine cover October 29 1910 |
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| 1910-11 Molly Bawn pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1910c I know perfectly well that this isn't right, she said, helping him and then herself; but I am wondering what there is about it that isn't right pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1910c Patience pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1910c Sweetest Story ever Told pen and ink over graphite. 57.7 x 43.5 cm Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1911 "Then You'll Remember Me" P.F. Collier & Sons |
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| 1911 About This Time of the Year the Woods Are Full of Them Life Publishing Co. |
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| 1911 Day Dreams Collier's Weekly |
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| 1911 Gibson Girl New York Sunday World |
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| 1911 Other People by Charles Dana Gibson published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & John Lane, London |
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| 1911 Rita was not at home when Valerie came into their little apartment; the parrot greeted her, shrieking from his perch pen and ink |
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| 1911 The Débutant published by The Abbott & Briggs Co.October 1911 |
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| 1911 When the Sap Begins to Flow published by P.F. Colier & SonApril 1911 |
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| 1911c Bearded man in top hat waving cane pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1911c Free Lunch New York Public Library |
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| 1911c I want you to like me, Jose; I want to be able to like you; I shall have need of friends, she said half to herself pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1911c Valerie was busy, exceedingly busy, arranging matters, in view of the great change impending pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1912 Collier's magazine March 16 1912 |
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| 1912 from Japonette by Robert W. Chambers |
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| 1912 The reason dinner was late pen and ink over graphite 46.7 x 74 cm Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1912c Among those not invited pen and ink Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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| 1913 Friends for Forty Years Advertisement for the Mongtomery Ward Department Store Catalogue |
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| 1913 McClure's magazine cover January 1913 |