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Escalator

Artist Cyril Edward Power (English | British, 1872-1951, (active late 19th-early 20th centuries))

Date1929

DimensionsOverall: 14 7/8 x 17 5/16 in. (37.8 x 43.9 cm);
Image: (irregular) 13 3/8 x 14 3/4 in. (34 x 37.5 cm)

MediumColor linocut

ClassificationPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1992.21

Not on View

Label TextA respected architect, Cyril Power also exhibited drawings at the Royal Academy and taught architecture at University College in the early 1900s. His career was interrupted with service in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. In 1918 he met the artist Sybil Andrews and the two began a long artistic collaboration that included the study of linocut—carving a relief image in the surface of a linoleum block to be inked and printed onto paper—at Heatherly’s Art School in London. This print demonstrates the key aspects of “Vorticism,” a term coined by poet and critic Ezra Pound in 1913 to describe the work of young British artists who constructed images with a still spot “at the heart of the whirlpool . . . where all energy is concentrated.”Exhibition HistoryTMA: The Modern Woodcut 5/12/00 - 7/23/00 Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.