Tag: Elizabeth York Brunton

Born in Musselburgh, Scotland, the painter and woodcut artist Elizabeth York Brunton (1880-1960), was educated at the Edinburgh College of Art and in Paris under Edouard Nevellier. Although having lived in Edinburgh for most of her life, Brunton’s exhibiting career was mainly overseas where she won an international reputation for the quality of her woodcuts, Often painting views of markets on the continent in both oil paint and watercolour, she exhibited a statute at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1925 and coloured wood engravings at the Salon d’Automne in 1929 and 1930. On becoming a member of the Colour Woodcut Society, Brunton had prints exhibited at the Society of Graver Printers in Colour between 1924 and 1932, and eventually became a member of that Society. Her print work featured in a number of international exhibitions, including shows in New York, Boston, Leipzig and in France, Holland and Japan. Within Scotland, Brunton had works shown at the Royal Scottish Academy, with the Scottish Society of Women Artists and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. The British Museum holds eleven examples of prints by her.