Charles Dana Gibson Is One of the Illustrators in This Month's Scribners

Kendall's promotional poster for Scribner's Magazine presents a full-length illustration of Charles Dana Gibson—draftsman of the idealized "Gibson Girl"—leaning casually against a wooden stool, hands thrust into trouser pockets, dressed in a black frock coat with a boutonniere. The yellow ground gives the image the flat, japoniste boldness fashionable in 1890s poster art. Lettered text to the right announces Gibson as a featured illustrator. Kendall, himself a respected painter and later Yale art dean, renders his subject with confident economy—the pose radiating the clubman ease that Gibson's own pen so reliably celebrated.