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From prim parlor maids to fashionably dressed ladies, Charles Dana Gibson captured the spirit of the American woman in his charming, turn-of-the-century illustrations. This collection includes nearly 200 of his finest, design-ready works.
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Reprint of Charles Dana Gibson's iconic drawings features numerous comic situations involving his celebrated Gibson Girl, an idealized vision of young American womanhood at the turn of the 20th century.
Excerpt from Charles Dana Gibson: The Man and His Art, With a Brief but Entertaining Narrative of Two Gibson Girls Art is proverbially a stern mistress. Many a man has served a harder apprenticeship than did Gibson, but his probation was sufficiently trying, as has been hinted already, and be proved by frequent reverses the old, old truth that there is no royal road to success. Two years of study with the New York Students' League and a brief course later at Julien's atelier in Paris - that was the sum of Gib son's artistic education so far as it was picked up in the professional schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...
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