Untitled

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled

Date 1970

Medium Crayon and colored pencil on paper

Dimensions Image: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Sheet: 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 29 1/8 x 37 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (74 x 94.3 x 3.8 cm)

Credit Line Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2019.106

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This image reflects Steinberg’s diverse stylistic influences and political concerns. The imagery in the right half of this diptych recalls the design style of Southwestern indigenous nations. Also recognizable is the icon of a man, imitating the “Thunder Bird” represented in numerous Northwest, Southwest, and Plains nation imagery and beliefs. The left half, with the block-letter word “Gaza” and a sun-eye, seems to refer to the Gaza Strip—the Palestinian territory that Israel had recently captured in the Six-Day War of 1967.

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