ANTIQUE 1890 GIBSON GIRLS PEN & INK WASH ART ILLUSTRATION PAINTING 12x8 on CARD

ANTIQUE 1890 GIBSON GIRLS PEN & INK WASH ART ILLUSTRATION PAINTING 12x8 on CARD (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

ANTIQUE 1890 GIBSON GIRLS PEN & INK WASH ART ILLUSTRATION PAINTING 12x8 on CARD (image 4/[null, null, null, null])

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_____________DESCRIPTION____________ ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 1890 GIBSON GIRLS PEN & INK & INK WASH ART ILLUSTRATION PAINTING ON OLD CABINET CARD BOARD 12.5 x 8 Unsigned VERY GOOD CONDITION / ... This is an original piece of art...NOT A COPY or REPRODUCTION ... It was rendered by a professional artist around 1890 ... It is UNSIGNED ... It is rendered in the Gibson Girl style... / HAND RENDERED IN PEN & INK & INK WASH (Blacks and Grays with White Accents) PAINTED ON A THICK CABINET-TYPE CARD / CARD MEASURES 8 INCHES HORIZONTAL BY 12.5 INCHES VERTICAL / ...the Gibson Girl represented the beauty of American women... / PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A ONE INCH PUNCTURE WHICH GOES SLIGHTLY THROUGH THE TOP LEFT PORTION OF THE PAINTING (Through the Trees-See The Photographs of Both Sides) IT CAN EASILY BE REPAIRED AND DOES NOT DETER FROM THE USE OR LOOK OTHERWISE THIS WILL FRAME AND DISPLAY JUST FINE / SUITABLE FOR FRAMING AND ARCHIVING / ...This is an original art illustration at an excellent bargain price... / PLEASE SEE 12 PHOTOGRAPHS ABOVE / VERY GOOD CONDITION / FREE FIRST CLASS SHIPPING WITH TRACKING INCLUDED. GIBSON GIRL The Gibson Girl began appearing in the 1890s and was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness portrayed by the satirical pen-and-ink illustrations of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th century in the United States and Canada. The artist saw his creation as representing the composite of "thousands of American girls." The Gibson Girl image that appeared in the 1890s combined elements of older American images of caucasian female beauty, such as the "fragile lady" and the "voluptuous woman". From the "fragile lady" she took the basic slender lines, and a sense of respectability. From the "voluptuous woman" she took a large bust and hips, but was not vulgar or lewd, as previous images of women with large busts and hips had been depicted. From this combination emerged the Gibson Girl, who was tall and slender, yet with ample bosom, hips and buttocks. She had an exaggerated S-curve torso shape achieved by wearing a swan-bill corset. Images of her epitomized the late 19th- and early 20th-century Western preoccupation with youthful features and ephemeral beauty. Her neck was thin and her hair piled high upon her head in the contemporary bouffant, pompadour, and chignon ("waterfall of curls") fashions. The statuesque, narrow-waisted ideal feminine figure was portrayed as being at ease and stylish. She was a member of upper class society, always perfectly dressed in the latest fashionable attire appropriate for the place and time of day. The Gibson Girl was also one of the new, more athletic shaped women, who could be found cycling through Central Park, often exercised and was emancipated to the extent that she could enter the workplace. In addition to the Gibson Girl's refined beauty, in spirit, she was calm, independent, confident, and sought personal fulfillment. She could be depicted attending college and vying for a good mate, but she would never have participated in the suffrage movement. Taking part in the suffrage movement was something more associated with the New Woman, another cultural image of women that emerged around the same time as the Gibson Girl. The Gibson Girl was a more popular version of the New Woman, who both undermined and sanctioned women's desires for progressive sociopolitical change.[4] The New Woman was the more disconcerting of the two images at the time as she was seen as an example of change and disruption within the old patterns of social order, asking for the right to equal educational and work opportunities as well as progressive reform, sexual freedom and suffrage. Whilst the Gibson Girl took on many characteristics of the New Woman, she did so without involving herself in politics and thus did not appear to contemporaries at the time to be usurping traditionally masculine roles as the New Woman was deemed to. She therefore managed to stay within the boundaries of feminine roles without too much transgression. Gibson depicted her as an equal and sometimes teasing companion to men. She was also sexually dominant, for example, literally examining comical little men under a magnifying glass, or, in a breezy manner, crushing them under her feet. Next to the beauty of a Gibson Girl, men often appeared as simpletons or bumblers; and even men with handsome physiques or great wealth alone could not provide satisfaction to her. Gibson illustrated men so captivated by her looks that they would follow her anywhere, attempting to fulfill any desire, even if it was absurd. One memorable drawing shows dumbstruck men following a Gibson Girl's command to plant a young, leafless tree upside-down, roots in the air, simply because she wanted it that way. Most often, a Gibson Girl appeared single and uncommitted; however, a romance always relieved her boredom. Once married, she was shown deeply frustrated if romantic love had disappeared from her life, but satisfied if socializing with girlfriends or happy when doting on her infant child. In drawings such as these there was no hint at pushing the boundaries of women's roles, instead they often cemented the long-standing beliefs held by many from the old social orders, rarely depicting the Gibson Girl as taking part in any activity that could be seen as out of the ordinary for a woman. The artist believed that the Gibson Girl represented the beauty of American women.........I'll tell you how I got what you have called the 'Gibson Girl.' I saw her on the streets, I saw her at the theatres, I saw her in the churches. I saw her everywhere and doing everything. I saw her idling on Fifth Avenue and at work behind the counters of the stores... [T]he nation made the type. What Zangwill calls the 'Melting Pot of Races' has resulted in a certain character; why should it not also have turned out a certain type of face?...There isn't any 'Gibson Girl,' but there are many thousands of American girls, and for that let us all thank God.........Gibson believed that America's Gibson Girls would become more beautiful... They are beyond question the loveliest of all their sex...In the United States, of course, where natural selection has been going on, as elsewhere, and where, much more than elsewhere, that has been a great variety to choose from. The eventual American woman will be even more beautiful than the woman of to-day. Her claims to that distinction will result from a fine combination of the best points of all those many races which have helped to make our population. Many models posed for Gibson Girl-style illustrations, including Gibson's wife, Irene Langhorne who may have been the original model, and was a sister of Viscountess Nancy (Langhorne) Astor. Other models included Evelyn Nesbit. The most famous Gibson Girl was probably the Belgian-American stage actress, Camille Clifford, whose high coiffure and long, elegant gowns that wrapped around her hourglass figure and tightly corseted wasp waist defined the style. Among the many "Gibson Girl" illustrators were Howard Chandler Christy whose work celebrating American "beauties" was similar to Gibson's, and Harry G. Peter, who was most famous for his art on Wonder Woman comics. In the newly developing art of cinema, although most leading actresses were at the cutting style of the day, the ones who came to embody it best were the Biograph girls, Florence Lawrence and to a more ingénue side of it, Mary Pickford. They personified and catapulted the cult of the ideal woman for the masses beyond American borders or the limits of stage performing and its language barriers across the globe, perhaps for the first time in World history off royalty trendsetting (and more or less off craftsmen design at first) in what in the following decades would become the star celebrity system of female sex icons. Which, many women from across the world would strive to match, or as byproduct of it and precondition to it, this would allow women a choice in options however limited at first by a narrow range, depending of popularity, in which to follow and pattern themselves after, whereas before they usually had not much choice - or any -, but to follow in tradition of their smaller community, or what new coming from the Court or fashion capital, or just from within the women of their family. Labor field or workplace, and what its different positions influence in lifestyle and image were not much of weight yet, or had a much real possibility of wide options for women for a long time and not far from the domestic, service fields. As Gibson self remarked as a time window snap-photo of the days of so much social change, noticing them at all those new positions and everywhere off the domestic arena, women were carrying it with a particular "all purpose" or standard style regardless of social status and occupation endeavor, to which the 'New Women' were more adaptable and integrating into their new identity with more independence. The World War I, when more women were employed than ever in the Home-front but off their homes by necessity, would definitely stir women off the ideal styles of more dandy bygone decades into the new styles of the "Roaring Twenties" and the dire needs of the Depression era Thirties. As Gibson pictured, it was a time portrait signature of the times when women came face to face with a unique milestone in women's history and these were how some of them, mostly of the younger generation reacted trying to hold a balance between past and after of what femininity was for them and was evolving towards, and this is how they carried themselves about into the 20th century. But a new image of it would be rehashed in each generation after, made of new or different component features of the ideal into an updated version which it would come to be called and identified as the girl next door, national standard of wholesome beauty, perhaps very unrecognizable from one generation to the next but almost always easy to identify by the same common standards of ideal femininity. 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