Brynhild Parker

{{Short description|British painter (1907–1987)}}

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Margaret Brynhild Parker (1907–1987) was a British illustrator and painter, and part of the East London Group.{{Art UK bio|nocount=y}} She signed herself Brynhild Parker.{{cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.201.html/2008/a-great-british-collection-the-pictures-collected-by-sir-david-and-lady-scott-sold-to-benefit-the-finnis-scott-foundation-l08137|title=Margaret Brynhild Parker The Evening news|date=19 November 2008|work=Sotheby's|accessdate=18 March 2017}}

She studied at the Slade School of Art from 1925 to 1928.

As well as painting, she illustrated books and designed advertising posters for Shell.{{Cite book |title=From Bow to Biennale: Artists of the East London Group |last=Buckman |first=David |publisher=Francis Boutle Publishers |year=2012 |isbn =9781903427682 |pages = 144}}

She moved to France in the 1940s, which influenced her style of painting, and spent the last years of her life in Antibes. She died in 1987.

Her painting The Entrance to the Port was exhibited at the Lefevre Gallery in 1938.{{cite web|url=http://www.abbottandholder-thelist.co.uk/east-london-group/|title=From Bow to Biennale - Artists of the East London Group|publisher=Abbott and Holder|accessdate=18 March 2017}} 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. Shell posters using her designs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/6858|title=Brynhild Parker. The Quay, Appledore. Everywhere You Go You Can Be Sure of Shell. 1932|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|accessdate=18 March 2017}} and the Victoria and Albert Museum.{{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O738117/everywhere-you-go-you-can-poster-parker-brynhild/|title=Everywhere You Go You Can Be Sure of Shell|accessdate=18 March 2017}}