The reason dinner was late

1912

Imagine waiting for dinner, only to find the whole household is too busy drawing you to cook! In this lively sketch, a large, mustachioed man sits resignedly at a set table while a group of fashionable women huddle around an easel, furiously sketching a caricature of him. Charles Dana Gibson, famous for creating the 'Gibson Girl' ideal of American beauty, uses energetic ink lines to capture this humorous domestic delay. It’s a playful peek into a world where art takes precedence over appetite, and the women are the ones holding the pencils.

Technique: Pen and ink
Material: Paper

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