Charles Dana Gibson\nBorn September 14, 1867 – December 23, 1944\nEducation Art Students League\n\nA talented youth with an early interest in art, Gibson was enrolled by his parents in New York City\'s Art Students League, where he studied for two years.\n\nPeddling his pen-and-ink sketches, Gibson sold his first work in 1886 to Life magazine, founded by John Ames Mitchell and Andrew Miller. It featured general interest articles, humor, illustrations, and cartoons. His works appeared weekly in the popular national magazine for more than 30 years. He quickly built a wider reputation, with his drawings being featured in all the major New York publications, including Harper\'s Weekly, Scribners and Collier\'s. His illustrated books include the 1898 editions of Anthony Hope\'s The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau. His development of the \"Gibson Girl\" from 1890 and her nationwide fame brought Gibson respect and wealth.

\nAlmost unrestricted merchandising saw his distinctive sketches appear in many forms. The Gibson cocktail has been claimed to be named after him, as it is said he favored ordering gin martinis with a pickled onion garnish in place of the traditional olive or lemon zest.\n\nFor part of his career, Gibson lived in New Rochelle, New York, a popular art colony among actors, writers and artists of the period. The community was most well known for its unprecedented number of prominent American illustrators.\n\nDuring World War I, as part of a public relations effort by the U.S. government, Charles Dana Gibson was called upon to assemble a group of artists who would create posters to generate support for the war.\n\nGibson, who served as president and helped bring the Society to national prominence, was an ardent advocate of the cause. He enlisted Flagg, Wyeth, Joseph Pennell and others—artists who would produce some of the war’s most lasting imagery.\n\nGibson owned an island off Islesboro, Maine which came to be known as 700 Acre Island; he and his wife spent an increasing amount of time here through the years. He retired in 1936, the same year Scribner\'s published his biography, Portrait of an Era as Drawn by C.D. Gibson: A Biography by Fairfax Downey.\nHonors\nSociety of Illustrators Hall of Fame Inductee 1974\n\nonline gallery https://americangallery.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/charles-dana-gibson-1867-1944/

Charles Dana Gibson History of American Illustration