The Gibson Girl’s America: Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson
Exhibition Items

Creating an Ideal

Head of a girl, ca. 1893–1914. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-33592]
A Daughter of the South, 1909. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Collier’s Weekly, July 31, 1909. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12856]
Woman in Black Evening Dress, 1901. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in A Widow and her Friends. New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12819]

Scribner’s for June, 1895. Lithograph and letterpress poster. Gift of Mrs. Grant Foreman, 1945. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-34349]
Picturesque America: Anywhere in the Mountains, 1900. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, May 24, 1900. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12817]
Sweetest Story Ever Told, ca. 1910. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Collier’s Weekly, August 13, 1910. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-01590]
The Reason Dinner Was Late, ca. 1912. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, October 24, 1912. Gift of the artist, ca. 1933. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12863]
Studies in Expression: When Women are Jurors, 1902. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, October 23, 1902. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-03059]
Called for Jury Duty, 1927. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, December 22, 1927. Alternate title inscribed across bottom central margin: “Twelve Peers—Good And True.” Gift of the artist, ca. 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-33593]

Studies in Expression: The Author and the Soubrette, 1902. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, February 6, 1902. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12822]
The Weaker Sex. II, 1903. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Collier’s Weekly, July 4, 1903. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsc-05887]
The Girl Who Didn’t Wait, 1919. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, April 10, 1919. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12867]
Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo, 1926. Pen and ink with crayon and scraping out over graphite underdrawing. Published in Cosmopolitan, September, 1926. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-33594]

The Jury Disagrees, 1904. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, May 12, 1904. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12841]
The Education of Mr. Pipp XXIV. On the occasion of Mr. Pipp’s Birthday, a Ball is Given at Caroney Castle, 1899. Pen and ink over graphite. Published in Life, August 24, 1899. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12816]
In Diplomatic Circles. Mr. Tagg is Fascinated by Washington Society and Decides to Go into Politics: He Enjoys a Vision of Himself at the Court of Saint James, 1904. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, August 4, 1904. Gift of the artist, 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12845]

Can You Drive a Car? 1917. Lithograph poster. Gift of Willard and Dorothy Straight, 1978. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-34350]
Help! The Women’s Land Army of America, 1918. New Jersey Division, State House, Trenton. Lithograph poster. Reprinted from Life, May 23, 1918. Gift of the artist, 1933. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00) [LC-USZC4-10239]
His Word of Honor, 1917. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, January 18, 1917. Gift of Charles D. Gibson, 1990. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-33517]
In Her Path, 1917. Pen and ink over graphite underdrawing. Published in Life, November 8, 1917. Gift of Charles D. Gibson, 1990. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00) [LC-DIG-ppmsca-33519]
Like the Moth, It Works in the Dark, ca. 1923. Charcoal and ink. Published in Life, February 1, 1923. Gift of the artist, ca. 1935. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00) [LC-DIG-cai-2a12869]

Charles Dana Gibson. The Education of Mr. Pipp. New York: R. H. Russell, Publisher. 1899. Private loan. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
Charles Dana Gibson. Design for Wall Paper. Suitable for a Bachelor Apartment. Published in Life, September 18, 1902. General Collections, Library of Congress. (023.00.00)
E. C. Kammermeyer. The Gibson Girl: March and Two Step. Cover for sheet music. New York: Sol Bloom, 1902. Music Division, Library of Congress (024.00.00)