Brynhild Parker | |
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Born | 1907 |
Died | 1987 (aged 79–80) |
Nationality | British |
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Margaret Brynhild Parker (1907–1987) was a British illustrator and painter, and part of the East London Group.[1] She signed herself Brynhild Parker.[2]
She studied at the Slade School of Art from 1925 to 1928.[2]
As well as painting, she illustrated books and designed advertising posters for Shell.[3]
She moved to France in the 1940s, which influenced her style of painting, and spent the last years of her life in Antibes.[2] She died in 1987.[1]
Her painting The Entrance to the Port was exhibited at the Lefevre Gallery in 1938.[4] Her works are in a number of collections, including those of Beecroft Art Gallery, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Manchester Art Gallery and the Ulster Museum.[1] Shell posters using her designs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,[5] and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[6]