Aspera

Saul Steinberg

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Saul Steinberg

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Artist: Saul Steinberg
Date: 1959
Medium: Pen and black ink with traces of graphite on cream paperboard
Dimensions: 51 × 76.5 cm (20 1/8 × 30 1/8 in.)
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
Credit: Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation

Exhibition history

Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul SteinbergArt Institute of Chicago · 27 May 2017 – 29 Oct 2017

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Untitled (Hedda Stern and Saul Steinberg in Cadillac)

Saul Steinberg · 1947

Pen and black ink on cream wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Biography

Saul Steinberg · 1965

Pen and black ink, with watercolor, over graphite with erasing, ruled in black pencil (recto) and pen and black ink (verso) on ivory wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Beverly Hills

Saul Steinberg · 1950

Pen and black ink, over graphite and erasing, with watercolor, ruled in graphite, on ivory wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Not Yet

Saul Steinberg · 1965

Watercolor with colored pencils, pen and black ink, and graphite, with black chalk and rubber stamp in black ink, ruled in black chalk and graphite, on off-white wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Monuments: The Important People

Saul Steinberg · 1945

Pen and black ink, with graphite and erasing, on ivory wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Bombing, China

Saul Steinberg · 1945

Pen and brush and black ink, over graphite and erasing, ruled in graphite, on ivory wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

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Saul Steinberg, Aspera, 1959, Pen and black ink with traces of graphite on cream paperboard, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

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Head

1945

Pen and brush and black ink, with graphite and erasing, on ivory wove paper

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Two Fighting Women

1945

Pen and black ink on ivory card (recto and verso)

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Bombing, China

1945

Pen and brush and black ink, over graphite and erasing, ruled in graphite, on ivory wove paper

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Untitled (Bar Scene)

1945

Pen and black ink, over graphite and erasing, on ivory wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Monuments: The Important People

1945

Pen and black ink, with graphite and erasing, on ivory wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Hedda Stern and Saul Steinberg in Cadillac)

1947

Pen and black ink on cream wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

B Movie

1948

Pen and brush and black ink and graphite with wiping, smudging and erasing, with colored crayon, watercolor, rubber stamp in gray ink, and gummed registration crosses, ruled in graphite, on two sheets of ivory wove paper, pieced

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (People Looking Up)

1949

Pen and black ink, ruled in graphite, on cream wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago