Stanley Ernest Brunst (1894 – 6 January 1962) was a Canadian painter, best known for his early abstractions.

Career

Brunst was born in

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, England and came to Canada with his family at around the age of 18. In Saskatoon in 1923 where he worked in construction and then as a dry-cleaner.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada He studied at the

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with

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in an evening class for four years in the 1930s but was mainly self-taught. In 1936, he began to paint abstractly. He moved to Vancouver in 1941, held three solo shows at the

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and was a founding member of the

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(1941). He was also a member of the B.C. Society of Artists. He passed away in Vancouver. In 1982, the

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organized a

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of his work titled ''Stanley E. Brunst, Radical Painter: An Exhibition''.

Selected public collections

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Career

Selected public collections

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