Gallery — Albert G. Power RHA

Death Masks & Life Masks — 1920–1942

Between 1920 and 1942 Power made death and life masks of many of the most significant figures of the Irish revolutionary period. In 1922 alone he made masks of Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, and Erskine Childers — four leaders dead within months of each other at the hinge point of modern Irish history.

Death mask of Michael Collins, 1922 — Michael Collins
Death Mask · 22 August 1922
National Museum of Ireland — Collins Barracks

Death mask of Arthur Griffith, 1922 — Arthur Griffith
Death Mask · August 1922
National Museum of Ireland

Death mask of Cathal Brugha, 1922 — Cathal Brugha
Death Mask · July 1922
Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin

Erskine Childers — Power family archive — Erskine Childers
Death Mask · November 1922
Power Family Archive

Life mask of Terence MacSwiney, 1920 — Terence MacSwiney
Life Mask · October 1920
National Museum of Ireland

Death mask of Austin Stack — Austin Stack
Death Mask · 1929
National Museum of Ireland

Death mask of Peadar Kearney, 1942 — Peadar Kearney
Death Mask · 1942
National Museum of Ireland

Portrait Busts

Portrait bust of Michael Collins, 1936 — Michael Collins
Bronze · 1936
National Gallery of Ireland

Portrait bust of Cathal Brugha — Cathal Brugha
Bronze
Signed AGP

Countess Markievicz, 1932 — Countess Markievicz
Bronze · 1932
National Museum of Ireland

W.B. Yeats, 1939 — W.B. Yeats
Bronze · 1939

Grace Gifford Plunkett — Grace Gifford Plunkett
Bronze
National Museum of Ireland

Thomas Davis, 1945 — Thomas Davis
Bronze · 1945
Power's final work

Public Monuments & Architectural Work

Pádraic Ó Conaire, Galway, 1935 — Pádraic Ó Conaire
Bronze · 1935
Eyre Square, Galway

Gresham Hotel facade, 1926 — Gresham Hotel Facade
Stone · 1926
O'Connell Street, Dublin

Figure of Science, Government Buildings, 1911 — Figure of Science
Stone · 1911
Government Buildings, Dublin

Power working on Sacred Heart statue, 1943-45 — Albert G. Power at work
Sacred Heart · Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
1943–45 · His final commission

Memorial cenotaph to Collins and Griffith, 1923 — Memorial Cenotaph
Collins & Griffith · 1923
With George Atkinson

Power's monument, Glasnevin Cemetery — Power's Monument
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

The Sculptor

Albert G. Power — Albert George Power RHA
1881–1945

Power with friends at DMSA, early 1900s — Dublin Metropolitan School of Art
Power with fellow students · Early 1900s

Power's coinage entry, Irish Free State, 1928 — Irish Free State Coinage Entry
1928