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Cyril Power

Cyril Power (1872 - 1951) was active/lived in England.  Cyril Power is known for Collaboratlive abstract linocuts with urban motion themes, paintings, teaching.

Depicting the speed, movement and flow of modern urban London in the 1920`s and 30`s, Cyril Power was one of the pioneers and leading exponents in England of the linocut*. He is also well-known for his artistic partnership with Canadian artist Sybil Andrews, for co-founding The Grosvenor School of Modern Art* in London in 1925, and for architecture and teaching.

Cyril Power was born in Chelsea, London, the eldest child of an architect father who encouraged his interest in the arts, especially drawing. He followed in the family tradition, and became an architect and worked in his father’s practice. He excelled there, and in 1900 won The Sloane Medallion, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects for his design for an art school.

In 1904, Cyril Power married Dorothy Mary Nunn, with whom he was to raise four children. They lived mostly in London, in Putney, and then Catford, but for a period in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, where he was to meet and then work with li   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4439 characters.]  Artist bio

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