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|  Known for her non-representational paintings, Ellen Banks is an
African-American artist from Boston, Massachusetts. She studied
at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and obtained her Bachelor’s
degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
In 1962 Banks’s work was displayed at the Dunbarton Galleries of Boston
in her first solo exhibition. She was the recipient of the Prix
de Paris, France in 1967. A strong representative of her work at
that time is an acrylic piece from 1970, entitled Black and White Plus #194 for its cool combination of two-dimensional shapes on a board.
In addition to private collections, Ellen Banks’s artwork is part of
the permanent collections of institutions in Canada and the United
States.
Submitted March 2006 by Jenna Wuensche, Researcher
Source: Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
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