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See also:GIBSON, See also:CHARLES See also:DANA (1867- ) , See also:American artist and illustrator, was See also:born at See also:Roxbury, See also:Massachusetts, on the 14th of See also:September 1867. After a See also:year's study at the See also:schools of the See also:Art Students' See also:League, he began with some modest little drawings for the humorous weekly See also:Life. These he followed up with more serious See also:work, and soon made a See also:place for himself as the delineator of the American girl, at various occupations, particularly those out of doors. These obtained an enormous See also:vogue, being after-wards published in See also:book See also:form, See also:running through many See also:editions. The " Gibson Girl. " stood for a type of healthy, vigorous, beautiful and refined See also:young womanhood. Some book illustrations followed, notably for The Prisoner of Zenda. He was imitated by many of the younger draughtsmen, copied by amateurs, and his popularity was shown in his engagement by See also:Collier's Weekly to furnish weekly for a year a See also:double See also:page, receiving for the fifty-two drawings the sum of $5o,000, said to have been the largest amount ever paid to an illustrator for such a See also:commission. These drawings covered various See also:local themes and were highly successful, being See also:drawn with See also:pen and See also:ink with masterly facility and See also:great directness and See also:economy of See also:line. So popular was one See also:series, " The Adventures of Mr Pipp," that a successful See also:play was modelled on it. In 1906, although besieged with commissions, Gibson withdrew from illustrative work, determining to devote himself to See also:portraiture in oil, in which direction he had already made some successful experiments; but in a few years he again returned to See also:illustration.
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