Untitled
Artist
Saul Steinberg
(American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999)
Date1957
MediumInk and watercolor on Strathmore
DimensionsImage and sheet: 12 5/8 × 22 3/4 inches (32.07 × 57.79 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Object number2019.49.4
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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.
This drawing served as the stage-set-like backdrop for the Main Street - Small Town panel of The Americans - a monumental 240-foot-long mural-collage Steinberg contributed to the United States Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair in Belgium. To create his mural-collage, he pasted paper cut outs of many types of people against enlarged photographs of his drawings. The epic panorama presented his vision of everyday life across the United States to a global audience of 40 million visitors in just six months.
Copyright© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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