Margaret Brynhild Parker (1907–1987) was a painter and illustrator who, after graduating from the Slade School of Art in 1928, became a member of the East London Group.
I especially love her works of interiors – it’s almost as if you’re having an unseen snoop around someone’s home.
During WW2, when painting commissions were drying up, Parker turned her hand to illustrating children’s books with authors such as Alwyn Richards and Ernest Noble.
Her works can be found in the permanent collections of MOMA, the V&A and Manchester Art Gallery amongst others.
The current record auction price for one of her works is $10,380 USD for a painting sold at Sotheby’s in London in 2008.
Brynhild Parker, a young artist whose work has often been shown in London, makes a sketch of Freda Walker in her flat…
Photograph by Bill Brandt for Picture Post, January 1939
