Material: Cor-ten steel sculpture on station canopies
Tom Nussbaum creates silhouettes dedicated to celebrating the commuters and railroad workers who, he understands, are the primary audience of his artwork. At the Hartsdale station, twenty-one life-sized figures line the center of the open space between the two train tracks. Monumentally-scaled people composed of iron are in the station's track bed and are seen guiding trains, keeping the track in good repair and throwing switches. Nussbaum comments, "My approach to this kind of figurative work reflects an on-going interest in American folk sculpture of all kinds, especially whirligigs and weather vanes. An MTA Arts for Transit Project.
