Subway is another of the sculptures by George Sigal belonging to the Margulies Collection. In this case we see a present/absent figure, seated in an old New York subway wagon (we can guess this by the map placed on the installation). By the height of the figure, in comparison to the seat, we can tell it's a boy or a girl, presumably African-American, because of his/her features and hair.

It is known that Subway is a reference to the civil rights movements of the 60s and, in particular, to Rosa Parks, the black young woman arrested for not giving her seat in the bus to a white man. As Segal recreates the setting for this piece (the figure, the wagon, the map of New York) we are allowed, with a simple glance, to grasp the sense of it. 

The artwork was made in 1968 and till then Segal kept the total whiteness of his characters, which, in this particular case, seems to express that the child has the right to be seated because he/she is white.