Nationality
Romanian/American
Artist Dates
1914-1999
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Date of Work
1977
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_C
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Saul Steinberg was born in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania in 1914 and later immigrated to the U.S. Steinberg is best known for his drawings on the covers of The New Yorker for almost six decades, as well as his paintings, prints, collages, sculptures. Saul Steinberg has work n the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, the National Gallery of Art, the Pace Gallery, and several others.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series I
Photograph of oil and rubber stamp on paper piece. Depiction of a small figure standing on the shore of a beach.
"East Side Sunset" was created during Steinberg's era of landscape postcards that represent our conventional ideas of what landscape paintings should be, but realistically aren't. This postcard is an evolution of that idea from the New Yorker's cover art from September 25, 1971.
UND Art Collections owns 81 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Saul Steinberg, East Side Sunset 4" x 6"
Oil and rubber stamp on paper
© Saul Steinberg 1977
Published by Artists' Postcards
Text in center bottom of postcard:
Original work traveling under Smithsonian Institution auspices 1978-80.
77-78F 1-2 Produced by Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, N.Y.C.
Condition
Very good