Three Landscapes
Artist
Saul Steinberg
(American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999)
Dateca. 1976
MediumWatercolor, colored pencil and rubber stamp on paper (top);
Litho crayon and rubber stamp on paper (middle);
Pencil and crayon on paper (bottom)
DimensionsImage (top): 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (8.89 × 13.97 cm)
Image (middle): 4 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (12.38 × 17.15 cm)
Image (bottom): 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.78 cm)
Sheet: 27 3/4 × 20 inches (70.49 × 50.8 cm)
Image (middle): 4 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (12.38 × 17.15 cm)
Image (bottom): 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.78 cm)
Sheet: 27 3/4 × 20 inches (70.49 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Object number2019.49.16
On View
Not on viewCollections
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.
“When I do a landscape,” Steinberg asserted, “I use it in my own way. I don’t think of it as being a true landscape, a part of nature. It’s more like a collage of nature.” While simultaneously collecting actual postcards of places he visited, Steinberg made many of these Postcard-Style Landscapes in the 1970s and 1980s. Here, he collaged three sparsely detailed landscapes, created with different materials, onto a single sheet. In each, the foreground is occupied by a solitary figure—a stand-in for the artist taking in the world.
Copyright© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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