Studies for "Steeplechasing" and "Whence & Whither?"
Sybil Andrews Canadian, born England
Cyril E. Power British
Not on view
Beginning in 1928, Power made several drawings of escalators at the Tottenham Court Road station that relate to his work Whence & Whither?. Many convey a sense of anxiety generated by the subterranean world, with its long, winding tunnels and automated stairs; an inscription on one drawing reads: "THE ROBOTTOMLESS PIT, HOMO MECHANIENS." Here, however, leaping above Power’s spiky escalators and pointed Gothic arches are several gravity-defying horses in brown ink. Andrews drew the racing horses, which are associated with those in her linocut Steeplechasing. Their graceful forms provide an element of levity to the more somber tone of Power’s darker, heavier drawing.
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