signed, titled & editioned
Reference: Coppel SA 24
Note: Illustrated p. 34 (Plate 2) “Sybil Andrews” (Glenbow Museum); p. 112 “Linocuts of the Machine Age” (Coppel); p. 71 “Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue” (Leaper); p. 45 “Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts” (Osbourne Samuel). Printed from 3 blocks: venetian red, viridian & Chinese blue.
Following the First World War, sport became a popular and appealing pastime for the general public. Andrews was particularly interested in conveying the rhythmic motion of the human body-a dynamic machine-in everyday activities and sport. This image was inspired by the common sighting from Andrew’s studio near the Hammersmith bridge on the Thames, of rowers and their boats.
Hanna Leaper in Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue writes on this piece “Amongst the most aggressively schematised of Andrews’ prints, the visually arresting interplay between the foreground figures and their blank counterparts is accentuated by the clever use of negative space, which creates angular, independent volumes between the teamed pairs.”
