Charles Dana Gibson was an American illustrator born in 1867 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was known for his pen-and-ink drawings that often depicted the beautiful and independent American woman at ...

The show is forthright about the fact that the artist's work, which helped set a standard for idealized masculinity, was the product of a queer gaze.

Who was this icon of genteel femininity? She was a figment of the imagination and product of the pen of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. Never given a name of her own, she was simply referred to ...