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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.

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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 advertisin