Cyril Power

Cyril Edward Power (17 December 1872 – 25 May 1951) was an English artist best know for his linocut prints, long-standing artistic partnership with Canadian artist Sybil Andrews and for co-founding The Grosvenor School Of Modern Art in London in 1925. He was also a successful architect and teacher. Cyril Edward Power was born on the 17th of December 1872 in Redcliffe Street, Chelsea, the eldest child of Edward William Power who encouraged him to... more

Cyril Edward Power (17 December 1872 – 25 May 1951) was an English artist best know for his linocut prints, long-standing artistic partnership with Canadian artist Sybil Andrews and for co-founding The Grosvenor School Of Modern Art in London in 1925. He was also a successful architect and teacher. Cyril Edward Power was born on the 17th of December 1872 in Redcliffe Street, Chelsea, the eldest child of Edward William Power who encouraged him to draw from an early age. This passion lead to him studying architecture and working in his father's office before being awarded The Sloane Medallion by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1900 for his design for an art school. In August 1904 Power married Dorothy Mary Nunn in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, shortly afterward moving to Putney in London where they had a son, Edward, the following year. Power worked as an architect at the Ministry of Works under Sir Richard Allington and was involved with the design and construction of the... less