Cyril Power Prints
Cyril Power Prints:
Cyril Edward Power R.A. [1872-1951]: Cyril Power was born in London, the eldest child of an architect father, and a mother who encouraged the young Power's interest in the arts - in drawing in particular (there are sketchbooks which date back to 1886) but also in music.
Power followed in the family tradition, became an architect and worked in his father's practice. He excelled here, and in 1900 won The Sloane Medallion, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his design for an art school. He also wrote and published a three-volume work, illustrated with his prints and drawings, on the ‘History of English Mediaeval Architecture'.
Cyril Power moved to London and in 1925 they helped Iain McNab and Claude Flight set up The Grosvenor School of Modern Art in Warwick Square. Andrews become the School Secretary, and Power the principle lecturer. He taught on the form and structure of buildings; on historical ornament and on architectural styles. But he, along with Andrews, also attended Claude Flight's classes, at the School, in linocutting.
Architecture was the subject of most of Cyril Power's early linocut prints, such as ‘At Lavenham' (1928) and ‘Westminster Cathedral' (1928); but with Power's and Andrew's posters on the sporting venues the interest in speed and movement in his work first became evident. This vorticist's concern, not only with speed and movement, but with the modern and the urban, Power was to develop further: in his art prints ‘Whence and Whither?', ‘The Merry-Go-Round' and in the exceptional ‘Tube Station' and ‘The Sunshine Roof' - amongst his best works - all ingredients are present.
Power continued to teach and work, in oils, principally, after World War Two, and produced some ninety paintings in the last years of his life. He died in London, May 1951. Here you can browse our range of beautifully produced Limited Edition Cyril Power prints including bestselling pictures of London Underground stations 'Whence and Wither' and 'The Tube Train', plus new sports pictures 'The Eight' and 'The Relay Race'. More prints are being added to our range all the time, so please revisit The Fine Art Company again soon to see new Limited Edition works.