About this artwork
Collage—combining disparate elements to make a whole—is arguably the most important creative technique introduced by modern artists. It is utilized across many artistic media, from drawing to filmmaking, and it was a constant in Steinberg’s toolbox. Here he pokes serious fun at superfluous architectural details, composing his skyscraper of cut-and-pasted printed illustrations, substituting pictures of a pipe organ and decorative interior niches for the building’s registers.
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Status
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On loan to Fundacion Juan March in Madrid for Saul Steinberg
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Saul Steinberg
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Title
- Downtown Building
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1952
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Medium
- Collage of cut-and-pasted commercially printed papers, and pen and black ink, over graphite with erasing, ruled in graphite, on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- 37 × 58.5 cm (14 5/8 × 23 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
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Reference Number
- 2013.1516
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Copyright
- © The Saul Steinberg Foundation
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