George Gibbs

George Gibbs was an American author, illustrator, artist, and screenwriter. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art & Design in Washington, DС, and the Art Students League in New York, and lived the last 50 years of his life in the Philadelphia area. His reputation was in magazine illustration for numerous publications including Scribner’s, McClure’s, Harper’s, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Collier’s, and The Saturday Evening Post. Gibbs also wrote and illustrated over 35 novels, illustrated books for other authors, and wrote screen plays for films.

He produced oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, charcoal drawings, and gouaches of figure and genre motifs. The title of the painting The Haymaker refers to a swing in boxing.