Bringing in the Boat
Sybil Andrews Canadian, born England
Not on view
Andrews’s sports scenes also evoke labor, standardization, and ideas of factory production promoted in scientific management theories, such as Taylorization and Fordism, which were designed to enhance workers’ productivity and efficiency. Numerous similarities exist, for instance, between her images of men working (Haulers and Oranges) and her depiction of athletes in Bringing in the Boat, in which the single line of laborers from the former works is echoed and expanded into two receding lines of rowers, whose sharp angles and jagged lines are mirrored by the boat’s metal spokes. One can also compare Andrews’s Bringing in the Boat and its industrialized aesthetic with Cyril Power’s The Eight, which combines elements of mechanization with colors and shapes that evoke the natural world.
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