Eighty Drawings - Charles Dana Gibson - Dover Fine Art, History of Art

Eighty Drawings is a paperback collection by American graphic artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944). It forms part of the Dover Fine Art, History of Art series and includes the subtitle, Including “The Weaker Sex: The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor”.

Key details

• Author: Charles Dana Gibson
• Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 80
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 30 June 2013

Synopsis

Charles Dana Gibson is best known for the Gibson Girl, presented here as a beautiful, independent and socially confident young woman associated with the turn of the twentieth century. This volume reproduces one of the artist’s original collections in full, reprinting the drawings as they first appeared more than 100 years ago.

Alongside dozens of sketches of Gibson Girls, it also includes Gibson’s “The Weaker Sex” series: a sequence of droll vignettes featuring a smitten young man and the object of his affections. Categorised as art: general, it suits readers interested in illustration and early twentieth-century visual culture.

Rackhams Reference : EN67I6I73H