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Streetscapes were a common theme in Steinberg’s art for decades. As an artist who traveled widely, he often experienced the convergence of buildings, sidewalks, pedestrians, and cars when visiting a city. This drawing, rendered in the Art Deco style Steinberg loved, became part of a project about Canal Street, the busy intersection in Lower Manhattan always choked with dense traffic. Even though the bumper-to-bumper vehicles are rendered abstractly, the sound and feeling of urban congestion is unmistakable.