Scribner's for June
Date1895
Artist
Charles Dana Gibson
(American illustrator and painter, 1867–1944)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for Scribner's, June 1895.
MediumSingle-color commercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 22 1/8 × 14 in. (56.2 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-38.2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn the song Why Do They Call Me a Gibson Girl, featured in a 1906 play, the chorus advises a woman to "wear a blank expression, and a monumental curl, and walk with a bend in your back...with down-cast eye, and a bored and languid smile..." The satirical lines end on the note that this feminine image is "intended, don't you see, for all in perfect type should be."
Charles Dana Gibson
c. 1896
