Friday, March 22, 2013

Much More from Mitchell Hooks

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.

4 comments:

  1. Those baloons are magic, Color reminds me of Huens. Otherworldly!

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  2. The sepia quality of many of these is so incredible. Rare to see this kind of art now.

    thanks

    Wes

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  3. Wow. What an incredible talent. They don't meke them like this anymore. Thanks so much for this.

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