John Joseph Wardell Power, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian painter
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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About John Joseph Wardell Power
- Dr John Joseph Wardell Power (1881–1943) was an Australian Modernist artist.
- He studied medicine at the University of Sydney and served as a doctor in the First World War.
- After the war he left medicine and studied at the Atelier Araújo in Paris and became interested in Cubism and abstract art.
- He was a member of the London Group and the Comite Abstraction-Creation, Paris.
- JW Power died in Jersey, Channel Islands in 1943.
- He left his estate (worth £A2 million) to the University of Sydney where the Power Institute of Fine Arts now bears his name.
- The Power bequest was the core funding to set up Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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