Margaret Brynhild Parker (1907–1987) was a British illustrator and painter, and part of the

East London Group The East London Group were a group of artists based in London. They worked and showed together from 1928 to 1936. They were mostly working class, realist painters whose formal education had often stopped at elementary school. The group developed ...

. She signed herself Brynhild Parker. She studied at the Slade School of Art from 1925 to 1928. As well as painting, she illustrated books and designed advertising posters for

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. She moved to France in the 1940s, which influenced her style of painting, and spent the last years of her life in

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. She died in 1987. Her painting ''The Entrance to the Port'' was exhibited at the

Lefevre Gallery The Lefevre Gallery (or The Lefevre Galleries) was an art gallery in London, England, operated by Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd. The gallery was opened at 1a, King Street, St James's, in 1926, when rival art dealers Alexander Reid and Ernest Lefe ...

in 1938. Her works are in a number of collections, including those of

Beecroft Art Gallery Beecroft Art Gallery is an art gallery in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The gallery is housed in the former municipal central library that opened in 1974 in the brutalist style as part of Southend Civic Centre. The Beecroft Art Gallery has a ...

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, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum,

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and the

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. Shell posters using her designs are in the collections of the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

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, and the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...

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External links

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Leytonstone Arts Trail
- includes a 1932 photograph of Parker at Lefevre Galleries on page 5 * - photograph 6 shows Parker sketching a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Parker, Brynhild 1907 births 20th-century British illustrators 20th-century British painters Natural history illustrators British women illustrators 1987 deaths 20th-century British women painters