The Tree
1969
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph with watercolor, graphite, ink, collage, and rubber-stamping on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 48.26 × 59.06 cm (19 × 23 1/4 in.) sheet: 56.52 × 74.3 cm (22 1/4 × 29 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2762
About the Artist
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg, born in 1914 in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, to a family of Russian Jewish descent, navigated a peripatetic early career shaped by geopolitical upheaval and intellectual curiosity. After a brief stint at the University of Bucharest, he enrolled in 1933 at the Polytechnic University of Milan, earning a degree in architecture in 1940. There, he honed his graphic skills contributing satiri...