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Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator. He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror of her vanity table, when viewed from a distance, appears to be a human skull. The title is also a pun, as this type of dressing-table is also known as a vanity. The phrase "All is vanity" comes from Ecclesiastes 1:2 ("Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.") It refers to the vanity and pride of humans. In art, vanity has long been represented as a woman preoccupied with her beauty. And art that contains a human skull as a focal point is called a memento mori (Latin for "remember death"), a work that reminds people of their mortality.It is less widely known that Gilbert was an early contributor to animation, and a camouflage artist (or camoufleur) for the U.S. Shipping Board during World War I. (From Wikipedia) More about C. Allan Gilbert:
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| | Books by C. Allan Gilbert: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Gilbert, C. Allan, illust.: Gentle Julia, by Booth Tarkington, also illust. by Worth Brehm (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)- Gilbert, C. Allan, illust.: The Hidden Road (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Wadsworth Camp
- Gilbert, C. Allan, illust.: The Little Minister (Maude Adams edition; New York: R. H. Russell, 1898), by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg text)
- Gilbert, C. Allan, illust.: Quill's Window (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1921), by George Barr McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
Additional books by C. Allan Gilbert in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Gilbert, C. Allan: A corner in women, and other follies (Moffat, Yard & company, 1905), also by Thomas Lansing Masson, Charles H. Ebert, C. J. Budd, H. C. Wall, A. B. Walker, John Alonzo Williams, Clyde J. Newman, Albert Levering, Albert D. Blashfield, F. W. Read, James Montgomery Flagg, T. K. Hanna, E. W. Kemble, John Cecil Clay, Raymond Moreau Crosby, and Charles Dana Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)- Gilbert, C. Allan: The fall of the curtain. (The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1901), also by Harold Begbie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gilbert, C. Allan: His daughter (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918), also by Gouverneur Morris, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gilbert, C. Allan: The invisible bond (Moffat, Yard & Company, 1906), also by Eleanor Talbot Kinkead, Plimpton Press, and Yard and Company Moffat (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gilbert, C. Allan, illust.: The Jessamy Bride, by Frank Frankfort Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
- Gilbert, C. Allan: Josselyn's wife (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918), also by Kathleen Thompson Norris, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gilbert, C. Allan: Life and Gabriella; the story of a woman's courage (Doubleday, Page & company, 1916), also by Ellen Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gilbert, C. Allan: Souvenir of Olga Nethersole in some of the characters of her repertoire (R. H. Russell, 1900), also by John Herbert Corning, Forrest Halsey, Malcolm A. Strauss, and Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
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