Untitled

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled

Date 1989

Medium Graphite and colored pencil on paper

Dimensions Image: 14 15/16 x 12 1/8 in. (37.9 x 30.8 cm)
Sheet: 15 5/8 x 12 13/16 in. (39.7 x 32.5 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 25 1/8 x 20 1/8 x 1 in. (63.8 x 51.1 x 2.5 cm)

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

Accession Number 2019.116

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In this drawing Steinberg renders his younger self, but instead of resorting to his usual playfully modernist style, he closely copies the two figures and a dog from a larger family photograph taken in 1925. The girl is his cousin Henrietta, who was visiting with her family from New York. The faces of all three subjects are delicately shaded in pencil, starkly contrasting the simple, yet efficient linear rendering of the bodies, possibly reflecting the notion that their faces are what Steinberg best remembers from his past.

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"Untitled | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2019.116