Untitled (Self)

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled (Self)

Date Ca. 1989

Medium Graphite on paper

Dimensions Image: 13 1/4 x 10 3/16 in. (33.7 x 25.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/16 x 11 in. (35.7 x 27.9 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 2019.117

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Even before his naturalization as a U.S. citizen in February 1943, Steinberg quickly became enamored with American culture and soon found a career at The New Yorker. Having fled the antisemitic racial laws in Italy, including time in an internment camp, followed by a year in the Dominican Republic awaiting a U.S. visa, his self-identity was as an alien even after gaining citizenship. Steinberg’s outlier status was instrumental to his penetrating interpretations of American culture and pastimes. Here he depicts himself, possibly based on a photograph, as a dapper gentleman combining the best of European cosmopolitanism with an American directness.

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