Untitled

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled

Date 1955

Medium Black ink over graphite on paper

Dimensions Image: 14 3/16 x 22 5/8 in. (36 x 57.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 7/16 x 22 15/16 in. (36.7 x 58.3 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 25 1/8 x 31 1/8 x 1 in. (63.8 x 79.1 x 2.5 cm)

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

Accession Number 2019.80

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This drawing is an exercise in an imagined take on the urban space. While at first glance the image appears to be relatively uniform in its composition, closer inspection shows peculiarities of pose, costume, and implicit social standing in the rendering of each figure. In the range of poses, from relaxed, confident, and extroverted to seemingly insecure and introverted, Steinberg also creates a catalogue of the available social personas of the American male in the 1950s. Some figures, such as the smoking man with his back to the second column from the left, are rendered with little detail, communicating mainly through their bodily stance.

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