San Francisco Bay Area artist Eleanore Bender was a member of and exhibited with the San Francisco Women Artists and was the catalog editor for their 1970 National Drawing Exhibition. She was represented by four embossed reliefs in their 43^rd Annual Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in June and July of 1970. Bender was also a member of the California Society of Printmakers and served as treasurer in 1975 and 1976. As a member of the Fort Mason Print Makers she contributed to their themed portfolios of prints.

Bender’s body of work includes printmaking and sand painting on paper, works that were primarily executed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1975, she was included in a group exhibition at the Marquoit Galleries in San Francisco that also featured prints by Dennis Beall, Karl Folsom, Eleanor Rappe, Mary Tiff, and Phyllis Taplitz. Bender also exhibited at the Meies and Bounds Gallery in Sausalito. The exhibition Caerulea: Ruins and Restoration Eleanor Rappe, Eleanore Bender was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art from October 6 to 31, 1977, and, in 1980, the exhibition was installed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Eleanore Bender’s work is included in the collections of the Minneapolis Art Institute and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Eleanore Bender died in 2018.