Untitled (Downtown)

1971

Saul Steinberg

Associated Names
Saul Steinberg

Artist, American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999

The image features linear designs with straight lines in the upper section. Abstract figures dominate the foreground, made up of mechanical, striped forms with circular green elements. Floating round forms resembling stones or planets are seen on the left. Smaller humanoid figures are dispersed throughout.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    crayon and colored pencil on folded sheet of Strathmore paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36.83 × 58.42 cm (14 1/2 × 23 in.)
    image: 34.61 × 56.2 cm (13 5/8 × 22 1/8 in.)
    unfolded: 73.66 × 58.42 cm (29 × 23 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.143.27

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift to NGA in 2016 from The Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York, NY.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York. Museum of the City of New York, December 1, 2006 - March 25, 2007

Bibliography

1973

  • Steinberg, Saul. "The City" The New Yorker 49, no. 1 (February 24, 1973), 40-45, ill. p. 43.

2006

  • Smith, Joel. Saul Steinberg: Illuminations. Exh. cat. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris; Kunsthaus Zürich; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; New Haven and London, 2006-2009: fig. 63 col. repro. 60. (not in exhibition)

Inscriptions

in graphite, lower right: STEINBERG 1971

Markings

blind stamp: STRATHMORE / ARTIST [in circle with thistle symbol]

Wikidata ID

Q64630595

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