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 ...

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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.