A selection of postcards showing line drawings by C Dana Gibson that appeared in various publications, including "Harper’s Weekly”, an American political magazine based in New York City, "Snap-Shots”, an early American photography magazine also published in New York City, as well as "Pictorial Comedy” and "Life’s Comedy”, humorous magazines published in London by James Henderson.
Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) was an illustrator whose work was prominent from the 1880s to the end of WWI. His pen and ink illustrations of what was to become known as “The Gibson Girl”, modelled after his wife, first appeared in Harper’s Weekly in the 1890s. Combining a tall and slender figure with an ample bosom and hips. They were the “personification of the feminine ideal of beauty”. The Edwardian Gibson Girl became the first American pin-up look that many daring young women, actresses and models aspired to achieve.
Charles Dana Gibson was born on 14th September 1867 in Roxbury, Mass., USA and died on 23rd December 1944 in New York City.
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