On this day, July 28, 1972, artist and illustrator Fanny Young Cory died on  Camano Island, Washington. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, at the age of 14 she went to art school in Helena, Montana and by 17 she was in New York at the Art Students League. Cory did cover and story illustrations for all the major magazines, book illustrations, and created the cartoon “Sonnysayings” which was published in newspapers in five countries.

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