[2] Power moved to London in 1906 to further his studies in medicine,[4] and practised as a doctor there for several years, before serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1917 to 1918, during the First World War.
[2] He also studied under Fernand Léger at the Academie Moderne, which was an important part of the development of the inter-war avant-garde movement.
[3] Despite his success and his prolific output in England and France, Power remained relatively unknown in Australia, but always identified as Australian.
[1] Edith Power's inheritance included his Picasso prints and collection of art books, and continued to live on Jersey.
[4] The inaugural John Power Memorial Lecture was delivered at the University of Sydney by American art critic Clement Greenberg in 1968.
[7][8] Part of the Power bequest provided the core funding to set up Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art[9] in 1989.