Untitled
Artist
Saul Steinberg
(American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999)
Dateca. 1968
MediumPencil on Strathmore
DimensionsImage and sheet: 14 1/2 × 23 inches (36.83 × 58.42 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Object number2019.49.11
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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.
Parades obsessed Steinberg for decades—an attraction, he explained, that gave him “an excuse to stare at people.” Here, the rhythmic left-right-left steps appear to be taken by representative dignitaries from di erent countries. e gure leading this parade is Steinberg’s version of Uncle Sam, who personi es the United States. e self-described parade addict rst populated his drawings with ranks and les of marchers for a 25-foot-long scroll-like drawing published in LIFE magazine on August 27, 1951
Copyright© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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