Catalog record · 目録番号 136140
The Tube Staircase
Catalog note / 解説
Cyril Power was one of a group of artists who promoted linocut as a medium for fine art printing during the 1920s and 1930s. He practiced as an architect but took up printmaking in mid-life, and studied linocut printing under Claude Flight. His subject-matter revolves around metropolitan life. This image transforms the staircase of Russell Square Underground station into a dynamic structure. In its expression of movement and energy it suggests the influence of Vorticist artists like Wyndham Lewis and Edward Wadsworth, as well as the Italian Futurists. Materials: Lino-cut, printed in blue, yellow and black on Japanese paper
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · 1929 · vam
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