The selection of illustrations for this book come from the height of Charles Gibson's popularity. His American Girl, which would later be called the Gibson Girl, became both a picture of contemporary fashion and life and it's standard as well. The gay '90's and the turn of the century leading up to the First World War was a time of innocence and hope and industrial growth. After the war had spent it's current generation, Gibson's work lost its popularity. However his art is still here as a picture of time past and as an example of what we had once attained as a nation. ( )

A wonderful collection of illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson and his "Gibson Girl," a fashion forward damsel in Belle Epoque America. ( )