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Description: | Cyril Power was a versatile architect and artist. He worked with his family's architectural practice and then the Ministry of Works. In 1912, he published 'The History of English Mediaeval Architecture', which he illustrated with his own drawings.
In 1923 he studied at Heatherley's School of Art, and two years later helped to establish the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. He studied linocuts with Claude Flight and rapidly developed a reputation for innovative work.
He was especially interested in the illustration of movement and speed, which he felt suitably expressed a vision of the modern machine age.
This linocut depicts a section of the spiral staircase at Russell Square station. The organic shape, like the inside of shell, has a dynamic sense of rhythm. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | The Estate of Cyril Power and The Redfern Gallery, London | Subjects: | Art and Design | Temporal: | 1929 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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