Frances hook figurines

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Frances hook prints

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Open an issue of The Saturday Evening Post from 1954 and you'll be rewarded with a stunning array of illustration - page after page after page. Most of the ads and all of the fiction pieces would be illustrated, many signed by the top names in the business. Fast forward ten years and you'd be hard-pressed to find more than a handful of illustrations in any major magazine. Where did all the artists go?

Of course there was still plenty of work in advertising and editorial but the best and the brightest moved into the markets of paperback and album covers, and movie posters. Many who were perhaps a little older or just plain sick of the rat race found lucrative niche markets in quasi-fine art areas, selling originals and limited edition prints to those with a passion for airplanes, cowboys, wildlife, etc.

There has always been a lot of work in catalogue, corporate, layout and textbook illustration, and many illustrators moved into those areas as well. Frances Hook was one such artist.

Frances Hook had been a regular contributor to the Good Housekeeping column, Teens of Our Times,

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Frances Hook

Claimed Civil War veteran

Frances Hook

Nickname(s)	Pvt. Frank Miller, Frank Henderson, Frank Fuller
Born	1847 Illinois, U.S.
Died	March 17, 1908(1908-03-17) (aged 60–61)
Allegiance	Union Army
Battles / wars	American Civil War
Children	Maggie

Frances Hook (1847–March 17, 1908) claimed that she, disguised as a man, enlisted as a soldier in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. She stated her aliases were Pvt. Frank Miller, Frank Henderson, Frank Martin and Frank Fuller. However, the enlistment records for the units in which she claimed to have served show no evidence of those aliases, nor any record to corroborate her story.^[1]

Early life

Frances Hook was born in Illinois in 1847. When she was three years old both of her parents died, leaving only her and her older brother, who brought her up until the start of the Civil War.

At the time the Civil War began, Hook and her brother were living in Chicago, Illinois. When her brother decided to enlist in the Union Army, Hook, not wanting to be

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Frances and Richard Hook

Frances(d.1983); Richard (1914-1975)

American Artists Frances and Richard Hook were the perfect husband-and-wife sacred art illustration team. Each had their own style of drawing, but they were able to meld them together to create images, which appeared to be the work of a single hand. Both were “lefties” and would sit together at the same drawing board, working on the same sketches. Richard concentrated on the male figures, while Frances blocked out the woman and children. Together, they created a warm and winning image of Christ for modern viewers, corresponding more closely to the “personal savior” of Evangelical Christianity.

Frances was born in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Richard must also have come from the same part of the country, since the couple met as students at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. After their marriage, Richard found work in an advertising agency and provided illustrations for popular journals like Collier's and The Saturday Even