Allan Banks served as President of the American Society of Classical Realism for 7 years, past Chairman of the American Society of Portrait Artists, and a member of ARC’s Board of Advisors, as well as one of the judge’s in ARC’s Scholarship and Salon Competitions. He has exhibited widely in galleries and museums across the country with numerous works in private and public collections including the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Connecticut, The Newark Museum, and The Springville Museum. Publications of his work include featured cover artist for American Artist Magazine and the Classical Realism Journal. Mr. Banks is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the Southwest and the Dictionary of International Biography. He is currently on file in the Smithsonian Institution and the National Portrait Galleries in London, England and Washington, D.C. as well as the Witt Library in London, the Capital Hill Club and the White House in Washington, D.C.

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ARC Living Master Richard Whitney has won over 40 regional and national awards as well as three grants from the Greenshields' Foundation of Montreal. His paintings hang in over 700 public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. They include the Anchorage Museum of Art and History, the Anderson House Museum, the Newark Museum, the Pentagon, Harvard, Yale and Stanford Universities, and the Catholic University of Portugal.

Whitney is a board member of the American Renaissance of the Twenty-first Century and is also Chairman Emeritus of the American Society of Portrait Artists Foundation.