About Charles Dana Gibson, The Top Of The Artistic Industry

Charles Dana Gibson
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Charles Dana Gibson
Born in 1867 in the state of Massachusetts, Charles Dan Gibson defied odds to rise to the top of the artistic industry. Gibson was a child in a modest family, but with persistence and hard work, he rose to the middle class. He revealed an array of confidence at just 17 by dominating the New York streets selling his ware. Gibson had little training as an artist, and after multiple rejections, an editor at the LIFE magazine decided to try one of his drawings. Unknowingly, it was this ink sketch of a puppy that propelled Gibson’s career to the highest levels.
Surprisingly, the success of the young boy from Roxbury did little to alter the kind and modest personality of his. It was his...