biographie de Charles Allan GILBERT (1873-1929)

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Illustrator, painter

Studied: ASL; Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens and Constant, 1896; C.N. Flagg.

Exhibited: AIC, 1896; PAFA, 1909-10

Member: SI, 1904; CAFA.

Comments: The choice of art as a career was partly due to his invalidism during his boyhood, when he turned to sketching for recreation. During WWI, he was a camouflage artist for ships, and created Liberty Loan Posters. Illustrator: Women of Fiction; A Message from Mars; and magazines.

Sources: WW27; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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