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Friday, 22 March 2013

Much More from Mitchell Hooks

Posted on 13:06 by Unknown
Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame inductee (for 1999) Mitchell Hooks passed away last weekend. Here are some examples of his tremendous talent, from various volumes of Readers Digest Condensed Books from the '60s, '70s and '80s.

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* Much more of Mitchell Hooks artwork in my Mitchell Hooks Flickr set.
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