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...born on the drawing board of a young New Englander, Charles Dana Gibson, and she made her creator the most influential illustrator of his day. He once explained how it happened: "I was young and healthy, and the one thing that's worth drawing when you're young and healthy is a woman. You can't spend all day with fruit and flowers...
Charles Dana Gibson never lost his "young and healthy" interest-even in the last months before his death, which came of myocarditis last week, at his Manhattan home...
...Duets. "C. D. Gibson" sold his first drawing to Life (for $4) when he was 19. It showed a small dog looking at a big moon, over the caption "The Moon and I." If he had not been a fast, hard worker, he could not have satisfied the quick public demand for his pretty women and his quietly satirical drawings of society life. By the time he was 25, he was the most sought-after black-&-white artist in the U.S. His fattest contract came in 1893, when Collier's agreed to pay $100,000 for 100 drawings...
...wife, who often posed for his drawings, has been generally credited with being the real Gibson Girl. The artist first saw her at Delmonico's, arranged to meet her at tea the next day, and married her a year later. She was Irene Langhorne, a Virginia beauty, sister of Lady Astor...
Charles Dana Gibson's great appeal, as man and artist, was frankly romantic. The towering, blue-eyed illustrator was a notable lady's man. His drawings mainly concerned the trials & tribulations of love between incredibly handsome, well-bred young people (the man in his duets often resembled Gibson's close friend, dashing, strong-chinned Richard Harding Davis...