Have you a book innocent enough for grandma and grandpa to read?

Have you a book innocent enough for grandma and grandpa to read?
Have you a book innocent enough for grandma and grandpa to read?

Have you a book innocent enough for grandma and grandpa to read?

DateMarch 1926
Artist (American illustrator and painter, 1867–1944)
Illustration CitationHearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, March 1926
MediumInk and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 15 × 21 1/4 in. (38.1 × 54 cm)
frame: 22 3/8 × 26 3/8 × 1 in. (56.8 × 67 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1983
Object number1983-148
On View
On view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextCharles Dana Gibson portrayed an example of his famous "Gibson Girl," speaking with a bookstore clerk. In fashionable couture, she askes if there are any books suitable for her dowdy gradnparents. As a "flapper," she models not just fashion but the independence and modernity of the American woman.
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