Artist: Richard Hook Medium: Gouache on Board Size: 3" x 6" (70mm x 150mm) Date: 1973 Code: HookGibsonGirl
This is the unique original Gouache painting by Richard Hook.
Camille Clifford was Edwardian England's real life Gibson Girl (named for Charles Dana Gibson's paintings of idealised womanhood). She looked just like the ladies he painted complete with 18" waist, piled hair and a pronounced bosom and rear. The "It" girl of her day.
Published in Look and Learn issue 581, 3 March 1973.
Richard Hook (1938 - January 2010; UK) Richard Hook was born in 1938 and trained at Reigate College of Art. After national service with 1st Bn, Queen's Royal Regiment, he became art editor of the much-praised magazine Finding Out during the 1960s.
He then went on to work as a freelance illustrator, earning an international reputation for his deep knowledge of Native American material culture.
He provided many illustrations, predominantly scenes from British history and daily life, for Look and Learn magazine during the 1960s and 1970s and illustrated more than 50 titles for Osprey, contributing to these books for over 30 years. Sadly Richard passed away in January 2010.
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