Untitled

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled

Date 1965–1980

Medium Black ink, ball-point pen, gouache, and and graphite on paper

Dimensions Image: 16 1/2 x 24 5/8 in. (41.9 x 62.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 9/16 x 25 5/8 in. (49.7 x 65.1 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 27 1/8 x 34 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (68.9 x 86.7 x 3.8 cm)

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

Accession Number 2019.111

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As a trained architect, Steinberg was long interested in the effect of urbanization and the postwar automobile culture on small-town and rural America. In this drawing of farmland, he emphasized the strong lines created by tractors tilling fields under an infinite sky, turning the American soil itself into an immense surface of graphic inscription—that is to say, a drawing. The bird’s-eye view of the land emphasizes the continuity of the individual plots, while the cars crowding the highway and the train making its way across the bottom of the image remind us that farmland is not so distant from the modernity of urban life.

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