Cyril Power Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue

Cyril E. Power (1872-1951) was a leading member of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London in the 1920s and 1930s under the inspirational leadership of Claude Flight. Flight's Grosvenor School artists were responsible for the remarkable rise of the colour linocut print during this period, and their significance as a major contribution to modern British art between the wars has not yet been fully and widely appreciated.

This book assesses Cyril Power's achievement as a dynamic avant-garde printmaker, and shows how in his work the potential of linocut printmaking as a semi-abstract language was realised to an impressively original degree. It is the first book to establish Power as an extraordinarily creative printmaker in his own right, cataloguing and illustrating in colour for the first time all 46 of his linocuts. Philip Vann traces the many sources for Power's work: the linocuts of the German Expressionists, the inspiring influence of the Italian Futurists, Vorticist prints and paintings, and works by Mark Gertler, Frantisek Kupka and Duchamp, as well as contemporary literature and film. The complete catalogue is followed by a selection of posters that Power designed for London Underground with Sybil Andrews, under the name of Andrew Power.

Cyril Power Linocuts is an essential resource for all those with a specialist or amateur interest in the vibrant prints of this period.

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Artists Biography

Cyril Edward Power was born in London in 1872.
Power trained as an architect with his father's firm and later won RIBA's Soane Medallion in 1900 and continued to practice his craft until World War I, when he served with the Royal Flying Corps.

In 1921 he met Sybil Andrews, with whom he maintained a close and somewhat informal working relationship which lasted some 20 years. He and Sybil Andrews enrolled at Heatherley's School of Fine Art, London in 1925 when he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Power also helped Iain McNab and Claude Flight set up The Grosvenor School of Modern Art in Warwick Square, London and was at this point a successful printmaker and watercolourist, showing at pioneering Redfern Gallery print exhibitions in 1930s.

Later in his life he turned to painting in oils with a palette knife, exhibiting at the RA, RBA, Goupil Gallery and Royal Glasgow Institute.

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