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Saul Steinberg

No. 6, ca. 1945

Description

Maker

  • Saul Steinberg, 1914-1999, American (b. Romania)

Title

No. 6

Year

ca. 1945

Medium

Pen and ink over graphite on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • pen and ink,
  • pencil

Supports

  • paper laminate

Dimensions

36.8 x 29.5 cm (14 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed:Steinberg

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Museum purchase: Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth and the Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

50.120

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Draw Me a Story

April 14 - July 23, 2006

Born in Romania and schooled in Italy, Saul Steinberg began creating cartoons for The New Yorker soon after his arrival in American in 1942. Many of his early works, of which this drawing is representative, were collected in his book, The Art of Living, 1949. Steinberg was engaged throughout his career with the question of how to draw America, a question inseparable from his status as an immigrant. Many of his works deal in conceptual ways with the strangeness of his experience and his own confrontation with American perceptions of status and place. By depicting the dapper outfits and tobacco accoutrements of businessmen leaning on one another and growing progressively smaller, Steinberg places a fine point upon the idea of hierarchy and the “corporate ladder.”

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