The Directors of Osborne Samuel invite you to the book launch and private view of
Cyril Power
Drawings, Posters and The Complete Linocuts
Wednesday 26 November 2008
6 - 8pm
The exhibition runs from 27 November to 20 December 2008
The Runners, c.1930 |
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This is the first major exhibition of Cyril Power’s remarkable linocuts for nearly 20 years. The exhibition includes virtually all of Power’s known linocuts together with a number of related proofs, studies and sketchbooks dating from throughout his life giving a fascinating insight into his working methods, all previously unseen. Also exhibited for the first time will be eight posters kindly lent by the London Transport Museum designed by Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews under the signature Andrew-Power for the London Underground in the early 1930s.
Linocuts by Power can be found in many public collections including those of the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Australian National Gallery in Canberra and the Art Gallery of Victoria, the Wolfsonian Foundation in Miami, Auckland City Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery in New Zealand, and many more.
Earlier this year, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston exhibited Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, the first major show of Modernist British prints in the USA. The 108 prints in the show include no less than 30 Power linocuts. The exhibition is currently at The Metropolitan Museum in New York where it runs until December 7th and then to the Wolfsonian Foundation in Miami in autumn 2009.
Study for The Eight - Wax crayon |
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The Eight, 1930 |
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Cyril Power - The Complete Linocuts
Published by Lund Humphries and Osborne Samuel
Now available from the gallery
This exhibition celebrates a new publication, Cyril Power –
The Complete Linocuts published by Lund Humphries and
Osborne Samuel. Philip Vann’s accompanying essay gives
us for the first time a thorough understanding of Power’s
work, putting it firmly into a contemporary context. The
essay also explores the undoubted inspiration of Italian
Futurism and English Vorticism on Power’s linocut art,
influences which he absorbed into a uniquely radical
language of his own.
The book will fill a void by illustrating in colour for the first
time all 46 of the dynamic prints made by Cyril Power
during the late 1920s and 1930s when he was one of the
group of artists who attended Claude Flight’s classes at the
Grosvenor School of Modern Art that also included Sybil
Andrews, Lill Tschudi, Ethel Spowers, Elieen Mayo, Eveline
Syme and William Greengrass.
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The Tube Station, c 1932
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Whence & Whither? c.1930 |
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The-Merry-Go-Round, c.1930 |
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