It has been said that C.C. "Tex" Hamill was drawing pictures of what he wanted before he learned to talk. His gift of creating art kept him busy from school days on to the Chicago Art Institute in 1935 and the American Academy of Art, where he furthered his expertise in commercial art. There he was given the name "Tex" from the Oklahoma artist, Charles Banks Wilson.
In September 1946 he started the C.C. Hamill and Assoc. Art Studio with Zenith and Hotpoint accounts. His wife, Marge Van Dyke Hamill, became his business manager a position she filled until their retirement. Tex belonged to the Art Director's Club and the Freelance Artist Guild, both of Chicago.
Four years later the Hamill family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast where Tex worked with art for a while before acquiring ownership of the "Down South Magazine" which they published bimonthly until 1980, when they retired.
As members of the American Travel Writers they travelled to many far away parts of the world, worked with eight Chamber of Commerces on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and was honored for his work in promoting the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Down South Magazine. His massive photographic legacy has been donated to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) Perkinston Campus and archived by Charles Sullivan. They are critical documentation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast from 1950 to 1980 with preHurricane Camille (1969) and preHurricane Katrina (2005).
At the time of his death he was survived by five children Margo (Sam Winstead), Penny (Wayne Parker), Jon Charles Hamill, Cindy Hamill, Joyce (Ronnie Ladnier) who died in 2000; and eight grandchildren
In September 1946 he started the C.C. Hamill and Assoc. Art Studio with Zenith and Hotpoint accounts. His wife, Marge Van Dyke Hamill, became his business manager a position she filled until their retirement. Tex belonged to the Art Director's Club and the Freelance Artist Guild, both of Chicago.
Four years later the Hamill family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast where Tex worked with art for a while before acquiring ownership of the "Down South Magazine" which they published bimonthly until 1980, when they retired.
As members of the American Travel Writers they travelled to many far away parts of the world, worked with eight Chamber of Commerces on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and was honored for his work in promoting the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Down South Magazine. His massive photographic legacy has been donated to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) Perkinston Campus and archived by Charles Sullivan. They are critical documentation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast from 1950 to 1980 with preHurricane Camille (1969) and preHurricane Katrina (2005).
At the time of his death he was survived by five children Margo (Sam Winstead), Penny (Wayne Parker), Jon Charles Hamill, Cindy Hamill, Joyce (Ronnie Ladnier) who died in 2000; and eight grandchildren
It has been said that C.C. "Tex" Hamill was drawing pictures of what he wanted before he learned to talk. His gift of creating art kept him busy from school days on to the Chicago Art Institute in 1935 and the American Academy of Art, where he furthered his expertise in commercial art. There he was given the name "Tex" from the Oklahoma artist, Charles Banks Wilson.
In September 1946 he started the C.C. Hamill and Assoc. Art Studio with Zenith and Hotpoint accounts. His wife, Marge Van Dyke Hamill, became his business manager a position she filled until their retirement. Tex belonged to the Art Director's Club and the Freelance Artist Guild, both of Chicago.
Four years later the Hamill family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast where Tex worked with art for a while before acquiring ownership of the "Down South Magazine" which they published bimonthly until 1980, when they retired.
As members of the American Travel Writers they travelled to many far away parts of the world, worked with eight Chamber of Commerces on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and was honored for his work in promoting the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Down South Magazine. His massive photographic legacy has been donated to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) Perkinston Campus and archived by Charles Sullivan. They are critical documentation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast from 1950 to 1980 with preHurricane Camille (1969) and preHurricane Katrina (2005).
At the time of his death he was survived by five children Margo (Sam Winstead), Penny (Wayne Parker), Jon Charles Hamill, Cindy Hamill, Joyce (Ronnie Ladnier) who died in 2000; and eight grandchildren
In September 1946 he started the C.C. Hamill and Assoc. Art Studio with Zenith and Hotpoint accounts. His wife, Marge Van Dyke Hamill, became his business manager a position she filled until their retirement. Tex belonged to the Art Director's Club and the Freelance Artist Guild, both of Chicago.
Four years later the Hamill family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast where Tex worked with art for a while before acquiring ownership of the "Down South Magazine" which they published bimonthly until 1980, when they retired.
As members of the American Travel Writers they travelled to many far away parts of the world, worked with eight Chamber of Commerces on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and was honored for his work in promoting the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Down South Magazine. His massive photographic legacy has been donated to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) Perkinston Campus and archived by Charles Sullivan. They are critical documentation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast from 1950 to 1980 with preHurricane Camille (1969) and preHurricane Katrina (2005).
At the time of his death he was survived by five children Margo (Sam Winstead), Penny (Wayne Parker), Jon Charles Hamill, Cindy Hamill, Joyce (Ronnie Ladnier) who died in 2000; and eight grandchildren
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