Hustle and Bustle
Sep 01, 2020
1 minute
By Jeff Nilsson
cover was a tribute to fellow artist and friend Anna “Grandma” Moses, who painted in a folk-art style, rarelyuses a we used to live.” Similarly, Rockwell’s cover evokes a morning rush hour from 74 years ago that takes us back in time. Reflecting the rising postwar flight to the suburbs, Crestwood Station, a stop on the Harlem Line into New York, is crowded with well-dressed commuters. Notice how, in those days, hats were de rigueur out similar style to portray Tuckahoe, New York, a very flat town that rises here like an Alpine village in the background. But the improbable landscape allowed Rockwell to make all the houses and cars of the neighborhood visible.
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