Exhibit: 'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity'

'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity'
(c) American Illustrators Gallery, NYC

The Sporting Life
The Gibson Girl, as drawn by J. C. Leyendecker for Collier's magazine in 1907, was the first ideal of American beauty to be depicted in the mass-market media. She represented the athleticism and physical independence of American women.

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