Tony Eubanks

Artist Biography

Tony Eubanks has been interested in art since he was three years old and watched his uncle and cousin draw war planes. Even though his dad was a test pilot, it wasn't the planes that really fascinated Eubanks, it was drawing art, prints and posters. As a child, he always looked at life with an artist's eye. He once told a writer for Art of the West. "Everything around me held potential. I drew anything I could think of, from sports figures to pictures of battle scenes, from movies and neighborhood houses to portraits of people. I found something new to draw around every corner.' By the time he was seven, his mother had given him his first set of oil paints.

Frequent family moves stymied his growth in art and he actually intended to study ranching when he enrolled at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, in 1958. His dream then, was to become a cowboy. But animal science classes bored him. Walking by an art class one day rekindled his early interest in art. He transferred to North Texas State University, Denton, which had a more comprehensive art program, and after graduation and marriage to Brenda Banks, he attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California. He recalls his time there as "the most intensive training I had ever had. Everything finally clicked for me.” Returning to Texas, Eubanks worked for several art agencies, then began doing freelance illustration assignments for Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Time, RCA, NBC and other publishers. By the mid-seventies he was tired of the hassle of illustration work and placed a few art, prints and posters in Santa Fe galleries.

Today, Eubanks is noted for the diversity of his subject matter in his art prints and posters, Westerns, landscapes and seascapes. Frequent travel to foreign countries only serves to wet his appetite for painting a variety of subjects, but always with a timeless, charming and colorful appeal. Eubanks' work was recently shown at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California and the Northwest Rendezvous in Helena, Montana. He has received awards from the Salmagundi Club of New York City and the Copley Society of Boston. He is a signature member of Oil Painters of America and is represented in private and corporate collections.

Tony Eubanks Art, Prints and Posters Collection