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Charles Dana Gibson (American, 1867-1944)
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Charles Dana Gibson was born in Roxbury, Massachusettes. He is probably most well known for his illustrations of beautiful
women from the first quarter of the twentieth century. In 1904, after seeing the portraits, Collier & Ives signed Gibson
to a six-figure contract to create similar illustrations for their magazine. The characteristics of Gibson's women became
those of the ideal American lady at the time. She was coined "The Gibson Girl". This drawing is from a compilation
book of Gibson's printed in the very early 1900's.
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Chihuahua Cartoon Print
(c. 1901)
Castles In the Air
(c. 1905)
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New Yorker Magazine
Cover Print
Throughout the twentieth centenry, some of America's greatest and most famous artists provided the cover art for the New Yorker
magazine. The annual Westminster Kennel Club edition of the magazine sported a dog-themed cover and was always a huge hit
with the public, but dogs were a common subject of many other New Yorker covers. Here are a few examples of covers featuring
a chihuahua.
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes (American, 1874-1927)
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Chihuahua and Mexican Hairless Dog (c.1910)
Color illustration from the National Geographic
Book of Dogs
Louis Agassiz Fuertes was a native New Yorker and America's most notable ornithological painter since Audubon. Reportedly
he had an amazing ability to remember what he observed, and then transfer that information to paper. Cornell University holds
a large collection of his bird illustrations, as well as his personal papers. This original color illustration is an actual
print page from the highly sought after 1919 National Geographic 'Book of Dogs'. His work can be seen at the Smithsonian American
Art Museum.
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