Painting and Sculpture
Ellen Banks
Ellen Banks (June 7, 1938 – May 18, 2017), also known as Ellen Banks Feld or Ellen Feld (married to Bernard Feld), was an American painter and musician. Her work is characterized by a unique interplay between visual art and written music, especially the visual translation of musical scores into multimedia compositions on canvas, wood, handmade paper or textiles. She was based in Brooklyn for much of her career. She died in 2017 due to recessive cancer. Her artistic legacy is being managed by the Ellen Banks Archive in Berlin Spandau, Germany. She refers to herself as "a representational painter of abstracts forms," and her unique work has been featured in galleries across the United States and Europe including Galerie Spandow, Artu Gallery, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She taught painting courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston (1974–1996), and garnered a number of awards and grant funding including a Ford Foundation grant in 1979, a Bunting fellowship from Radcliff College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Painting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Book Grant from Nexus Press in 1988.
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See also
- ▸Charles Burton Barber
- ▸Italian Comedians by a Fountain
- ▸Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings
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