Untitled (Downtown)

1971

Saul Steinberg

Artist, American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999

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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

    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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