Rush Hour
Sybil Andrews Canadian, born England
Not on view
Rush Hour was made a year after Andrews' Straphangers and can be read as a reverse of the earlier work. Here, Andrews flipped the crescent shape from the bottom of the sheet to the sides and multiplied it to create a platform for the figures. She utilized vivid orange and blue tones for both the escalator stairs and the commuters bodies, thus unifying them against the white tone of the sheet. Rather than showing the commuters’ heads and upper bodies, she depicted three sets of legs belonging to anonymous passengers of both genders as they gingerly navigate the spiky orange and blue shapes representing wooden escalator steps. The pointed edges of the steps appear to have been derived from Cyril Power’s escalators, again testifying to the artists’ close working relationship and mutual influence.
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