Margaret Leah Blundell (1907–1996) was a British artist, notable as a mural painter, commercial artist and printmaker.

Biography

Blundell was born at

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(now Merseyside) and attended the Cheltenham Ladies' College before studying at the Cheltenham School of Art and then, from 1925, at the Liverpool School of Art. Subsequently, Blundell produced illustrations for magazines and catalogues and also created murals for shops and hotels. Her mural commissions included one for the cafeteria at Lewis' store in Manchester, for the Pleasure Beach Company at Blackpool, for the Daniel Neal chain of shops, for Heal's department store, for the liner RMS Caronia and for

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hotels. Her murals were featured in the '' Architects' Journal'' and ''Building News''. Illustrations by Blundell were featured in the

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and in catalogues for WHSmith and for both Barkers' and Lewis' department stores. Throughout her painting career Blundell exhibited with the

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, the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Cambrian Academy and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Blundell lived at

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on Anglesey in north Wales for several years and died at nearby Bangor.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blundell, Margaret 1907 births 1996 deaths 20th-century English women artists Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University Artists from Merseyside English illustrators English women painters People from Wallasey People educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College British muralists British women muralists