It's National Library Week! By all means support your local library, but let's not neglect our private, personal libraries. There's no sanctuary like a room filled with books. Here's an illustration by Charles Dana Gibson set in just such a household library. It is abundant with masterly strokes of the pen. His popular Gibson Girl is here a widow dressed in black, poor thing, but she can still find solace in books.
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| Charles Dana Gibson, A Widow and her Friends: She Looks for Relief Among Some of the Old Ones Life, 1900 The Walt Reed Illustration Archive Modern Graphic History Library Washington University Library |
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