{"product_id":"grosvenor-school-linocuts-gallery-wall-set-of-3-exhibition-posters-power-flight-spowers","title":"Grosvenor School Linocuts - Gallery Wall Set of 3 Exhibition Posters (Power, Flight, Spowers)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree exhibition posters for the linocut artists of the Grosvenor School, sold together as a gallery wall set of three same-size prints: Cyril Power's 'The Eight', Claude Flight's 'Speed' and Ethel Spowers' 'The Giant Stride'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Grosvenor School of Modern Art opened in Pimlico in 1925, and from the following year Claude Flight taught a linocut class there that became the centre of a movement. Flight argued that linoleum, cheap and quick to cut, was the democratic printmaking medium of the machine age, and he pushed his students towards subjects to match: traffic, tube trains, sport, the crowd. 'Speed', which he cut in 1922 before the school existed, is the manifesto print, a red General omnibus swinging round a curve of tall buildings with the whole street bent by its motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyril Power was in his fifties when he joined Flight's class, an architect by training who shared a studio with Sybil Andrews and produced the school's most ambitious prints. 'The Eight' takes a rowing crew and reduces it to a repeated arc of white shirts and orange blades against a violet river, each figure a beat in a rhythm. Ethel Spowers came from Melbourne to study with Flight in 1928 and returned to Australia to work in the same idiom; 'The Giant Stride' (1933) catches children swinging out from a maypole in a wheel of colour, the ground and sky tilting with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach poster imagines a later exhibition of the artist's work, designed to the conventions of its date. Power's is a 1958 show of prints depicting London at Richmond Town Hall, set in a plain municipal sans-serif; Flight's a 1959 exhibition of his London prints at the Talbot Harlheigh Gallery, New Bond Street, in Albertus-style capitals over a Times-style serif; Spowers' a 1983 survey, 'Ethel Spowers and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art', at Wilson Watson Fine Art in Mayfair. Together they hang as a single wall of British modernism at its most exuberant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are designed posters, not historical reproductions. They have been created as part of Art Poster Archive, a project focused on period-accurate exhibition graphics for artists and movements. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"artposterarchive","offers":[{"title":"A3 (11.7 x 16.5 ins)","offer_id":56891894301058,"sku":null,"price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (16.5 x 23.4 ins)","offer_id":56891894333826,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18 x 24 ins (45 x 60 cm)","offer_id":56891894366594,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (23.4 x 33.1 ins)","offer_id":56891894399362,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24 x 36 ins (60 x 90 cm)","offer_id":56891894432130,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5260\/4323\/files\/grosvenor_3.png?v=1788626412","url":"https:\/\/artposterarchive.com\/products\/grosvenor-school-linocuts-gallery-wall-set-of-3-exhibition-posters-power-flight-spowers","provider":"artposterarchive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}