Charles Allan Gilbert was born September 9, 1873, in Hartford, Connecticut. He died April 20, 1929 in New York City. Go to the bottom of the page for more biographical information about this artist.
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About Charles Allan Gilbert:
Charles Allan
Gilbert was born September 9, 1873, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the son of Charles
Edwin Gilbert and Virginia Ewing Crane Gilbert, and he had two brothers, Albert Waldron
Gilbert and Edwin Randolph Gilbert. Charles Allan was the youngest. In his youth, Gilbert
was an invalid. Laid up for years, he found recreation limited, so he began making
sketches. He became so fond of drawing and sketching that he began taking art lessons at
the age of 16 from Charles Noel Flagg, the founder of the Connecticut League of Art
Students. The nature of Mr. Gilbert's invalidism is not known. It is as much a mystery as
Mr. Gilbert himself and no official photographs or drawings have been discovered to give
us an idea of what he really looked like. At the age of 19, C. Allan Gilbert enrolled at
the Art Students' League of New York. He attended there from October 1892 through May
1893, and again from October 1893 through May 1894. After these two years he went to Paris
and spent a year at Julien's under Laurens and Benjamin Constant. A year later he returned
to New York and opened a studio. Finding that the commercialization of art was profitable
to a young man just starting to make his way, he began to draw and paint advertising
pictures. These made him a living and soon he began to contribute to Life magazine,
occasionally writing the jokes for his drawings himself. His first really remunerative
work was the illustration of a set of books about theatrical celebrities. He tried his
hand at landscapes, but these, while accepted at the Academy in New York, were not
displayed. In Philadelphia his art had better luck. Gilbert's studio was one of the most
attractive in New York. It was at the top of the house that Frank Millet, one of the many
passengers who perished when the Titanic sank, owned and lived in at 26 West Eighth
Street. C. Allan Gilbert enjoyed spending his summers on Monegan Island in Maine. His work
was done at irregular intervals--when the humor struck him. Gilbert was a bachelor. Among
the books of his drawings are Overheard in the Whittington Family, Women of
Fiction, All is Vanity, The Honeymoon, A Portfolio of Heads, Cameo
Heads, Collection of Heads in Color, Separate Drawings in Color, A
Message from Mars, and In Beauty's Realm. During World War I Gilbert performed
valuable work in camouflaging ships for the Navy in 1917 and 1918, and in making Liberty
Loan posters. He died April 20, 1929 in New York City of pneumonia after a brief illness.
He was 55 years of age. At the time of his death, he resided at 39 West Sixty-seventh
Street.
During his career Mr. Gilbert tried to achieve success in promoting the "Gilbert
Girl," but his competition and contemporary, Charles Dana Gibson, succeeded in
winning the notoriety for his "Gibson Girl." Mr. Gilbert was a member of the
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Charles
Allan Gilbert was an exceptionally talented artist and illustrator. For reasons unknown,
his work never achieved the fame that it so richly deserved.
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