Title: Black Ink Wash Drawing of Mary Ann Deming Crocker By Charles Gibson
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: N/A
History: N/A
Origin: North America > United States
Condition: N/A
Item Date: N/A
Item ID: 408
Original Black Ink Wash Drawing of Mary Ann Deming Crocker. Drawing By Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) Charles Dana Gibson, the legendary late 19th-century pen and ink artist, was an Influencer long before the term came into use to describe someone on social media who “influences” their followers’ tastes in clothes, food, music, where to go on vacation and other lifestyle choices. He drew all kinds of people. Mary Ann Deming Crocker and the Crocker family became generous benefactors. The portrait was commissioned by. Charles Crocker and Mary Ann Deming Crocker.
Charles Dana Gibson was interested in art as a boy while watching his father cut silhouettes; he was born into a wealthy New England family from Roxbury, then a suburb of Boston. An enterprising lad, he started cutting silhouettes himself at eight, and by the time he was twelve, he was selling them at exhibitions. At fourteen years of age, through family connections, Charles was apprenticed to sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Cornish Colony friend of Maxfield Parrish. After nearly a year in the Saint-Gaudens studio, he determined that sculpture was not his main interest and he took up pen and ink. His parents, recognizing artistic talent, enrolled him in the Art Students League. In 1885, due to an unforeseen family financial hardship, he left school at just eighteen to start his career. After trying unsuccessfully to get a job, he happened on Life, a new magazine competing with already well-established competitors, Puck and Judge.
