Bernard  Brussel-Smith

Woodengraver Bernard Brussel-Smith was born in Greenwich Village, New York in 1914. He pursued studio arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1931-1936, studying lithography with Roy Cleveland Nurse (1885-1975) and Henry McCarter (1876-1955). He later discovered engraving when he attended courses at the New School for Social Research in New York, studying under woodengraver Fritz Eichenberg beginning in 1941. He proved adept at the precise medium, and Eichenberg soon elected him for the position of teacher’s assistant. Woodengraving would become Brussel-Smith’s preferred medium for the next five decades.