Parade

Prints and Drawings

1951

Saul Steinberg
American, born Romania, 1914-1999

Throughout his work, Steinberg employed numerous graphic equivalents for language. Here, he presents an inventory of symbols on parade: imprints from readymade rubber stamps, hand-drawn spirals and lines, and watercolor squiggles. Each mark is isolated and presented as if it has physical heft, making them like nouns or things, rather than—as they usually are—adjectives or modifiers that describe something else.

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Artist: Saul Steinberg
Title: Parade
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1951
Medium: Pen and black ink and rubber stamps in various colors, with watercolor and colored crayon, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 36.8 × 59 cm (14 1/2 × 23 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Reference Number: 2013.1512

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