A great book, full of illustrations. Scarce in dustjacket.

"The illustrations alone would make 'Portrait of an Era' a pleasant entertainment for older readers susceptible to nostalgia for the days of shirtwaists and hard sailor hats and pyrography and tableauxs vivants, for younger readers with a taste for social history, and for anybody who has the capacity to enjoy the almost lost art of pen-and-ink drawing." (The Saturday Review of Literature).

A profusely illustrated biography of this hugely popular turn of the century illustrator whose cartoons influenced a generation of American society. Gibson was one of the first superstar illustrators. Gibson's name recognition was the equivalent of Charles Schulz & Peanuts for our generation.

Gibson was comfortably retired from illustration when this biography was written in 1936, three decades removed from the height of Gibson's popularity. The turn-of-the-century world he depicted—separated by a world war, the jazz age, stock market crash, and depression—may have seemed unimaginable to the young people, but still fondly remembered by nostalgic seniors.

228 black & white illustrations, many full-page.