Untitled
Artist
Saul Steinberg
(American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999)
Date1950-1952
MediumInk, crayon, and watercolor on Strathmore paper
DimensionsImage and sheet: 22 3/4 × 14 5/8 inches (57.79 × 37.15 cm)
Mat: 30 1/2 × 21 1/4 inches (77.47 × 53.98 cm)
Mat: 30 1/2 × 21 1/4 inches (77.47 × 53.98 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Object number2019.49.1
On View
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Exhibition History"A Way of Reasoning on Paper," The Art of Saul Steinberg, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. April 18 - December 3, 2023.
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Steinberg traveled widely and frequently rode trains across the United States and abraod. These experiences seeped into his musings as well as his art, with trains frequently appearing in drawings. "Traveling by train," Steinberg noted, allows us to "...see most of all the back sides of cities. The view is 'lateral'..." In this drawing, the view Steinberg shares with us is lateral, too, as if we are rolling past the train and the landscape beyond on a parallel track.
The artist (1914-1999), New York;
His bequest to The Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York, 1999;
Its gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2019.
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