[Nowhere Man]

Man, that Charles Dana Gibson could sure draw.

Gibson is among my favorite artists along with John Chandler Christy, and many others whose names escape me now. I also like the fashion illustustrators of the time like M. Emma Musselman and Karl Kleinschmidt who did works from magazines like "Ladies Home Journal," "Women's Home Companion," and in the case of Kleinschmidt, "The Delineator" during the 1900 - 1915 time period. I guess being a bit of a "Neo-Victorian" myself, I enjoy their art and the magazines actually had good general articles anyone of the period (or even today" could enjoy along with stories from Kipling, Frank Baum, and other authors of the time.

Sadly, we are in a world where bad is good and so on and I do believe there is going to be a time when we will have a showdown with the libertines.

[B-Chan]

Well, Gibson et al were really more Edwardians than Victorians (Her Majesty left us in 1901, after all), but your point is well taken. Poster art of the period was also of high quality ( e.g. Meunier, Carqueville, Steinlen, Mucha et al).