Stephanie Lynne Marcus

Stephanie Lynn Marcus, a resident of Brooklyn, NY, passed away on March 15, 2023. Stephanie was born on February 17, 1940 in Bronx, NY to the late Max and Ruth (Millman) Marcus. She worked for many years as an artist and photographer. Stephanie was always talented. In her senior year at the High School of Music and Art in New York City, her design was chosen, by contest, to be used for the Senior Pin. After winning three scholarships, she attended Syracuse University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts. In 1988, she was awarded a Master of Art degree, with distinction, from the New York Institute of Technology with a major in Communication Arts.

She worked as a freelance photographer for New York Magazine with assignments such as "All The Tea In China", recreating and photographing scenes from movies filmed in New York and photo portraits of various notables, including Mario Cuomo. She shot a photo of a World Trade Center tower which became a book cover, calendar cover and a poster for an exhibit of photographs of Manhattan in the Museum of the City of New York.

Stephanie taught photography, for a year, at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Her freelancing included taking campaign photos for a local politician. When he won his election, he paid her with frozen salmon, shipped to her in New York.

Back in New York, Stephanie and her business partner, Rose Fontenella, joined the Women's Liberation movement. With their company, Liberation Enterprises, they designed, created and sold jewelry, stationary and housewares with feminist designs.

Her true passion was painting. Stephanie experimented with various materials such as charcoal or pastels on grey paper, watercolors, and finally, water based oil paints on canvas. Themes ranged from abstract autumn leaves, to football players piling up on a ball, to acrobats, to wrestlers, to children wrestling. (Her young nephew posed his arms and legs in many positions to inspire the design's mayhem). Of course she did portraits of her grandniece and grandnephew.

Stephanie had no children of her own, but she was often a volunteer tour guide for school children at the Brooklyn Museum. She was also a regular volunteer at Barge Music, a floating concert hall, docked at the foot of Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Olga, the proprietor, was a violist. Stephanie painted a magnificent still life entitled "Olga's Violin". It decorates the waiting room of a prominent Manhattan dentist.

Stephanie Marcus was invited, by the library in the village where she was visiting to have a two month exhibition during the 2024 winter.

She is survived by her sister, Marilyn De Leon, nephew Eliot De Leon, niece-in-law Justine, grandniece Isabelle and grandnephew James. She was 83 years old.

A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, March 26 from 12-2pm at Edward F Carter Funeral Home, 41 Grand Street, Croton-on-Hudson, NY with a prayer service at 12:30pm. Interment will be private.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.efcarterfuneralhome.com for the Marcus family.