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NameAir raid
ProductionCyril Power; circa 1935
Classificationprints, linocuts, works on paper
Materialsrice paper
Materials Summarylinocut
Techniqueslinoleum-block printing
DimensionsImage: 295mm (width), 312mm (height)
Registration Number1953-0003-269
Credit lineGift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953
Overview
Air raid was inspired by Cyril Power’s memory of aerial dogfights – close combat between fighter aircraft – during World War I. The artist served in the Royal Flying Corps.
Power first trained as an architect, practising until 1922. He went on to become a founding lecturer in architectural drawing and history at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, London, in 1925. It was there that Claude Flight taught him the art of linocutting.