This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Marcia Banks is an illustrator, who has had a 25 year career in fashion illustration. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Pratt Art Institute and the Art Student's League and graduated from the Parsons School of Design.
She then embarked on her career to create ads specializing in children's and adult fashions for newspapers and catalogs including for Montgomery Ward.
She is listed in "Who's Who in American Art" and received the Generoso Pope Award in New York.
In 1993 Marcia Banks and her husband moved to Dallas, Texas to be near her two sons and two grandchildren. She has been traveling the United States, Paris and London and is incorporating scenes from these places into her paintings.
Banks has been honored for her works by receptions by Reme Krug, the National Kidney Foundation and The Adolphus and Melrose Hotels in Dallas to name a few.
Education:
1 Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY
2 Scholarship to Parsons School of Design N.Y.C., NY
3 Majored in Fashion Illustration Graduated 1954
Source:
The son of the artist, submitted May 2005 by Art Gateway Inc.
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