Heide Museum of Modern Art: J.W. Power
Work by one of Australia’s most successful expatriate painters of the interwar years is available for view at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in an exhibition titled Abstraction-Creation: J.W. Power in Europe 1921-1938.
The exhibition focuses on J.W. Power, a doctor who served in World War I, and his career in the context of London and Paris between wars.
After Power left the war, he turned to art and joined the London Group before he began to study in Paris with Fernand Leger and Leger’s Academia Moderne in the mid-1920s. There, Power grew into a prominent abstract artist and joined an abstract international artists group known as Abstraction-Creation.
He is known as a visionary benefactor, who wished to make available to the people of Australia the latest ideas and theories evolving throughout the contemporary modern art world and to increase the amount of educational access to these developing trends.
The exhibition is currently open at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, Australia, and will come to a close on Sunday 22 March 2015.
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