Object number2024.19.6
Untitled
Date1970-1990
Artist
Saul Steinberg
(American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999)
CultureAmerican
MediumAluminum, rubber stamp, ink, gouache, wood, plastic and clock mechanism
DimensionsOverall: 13 x 12 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. (33 x 31.7 x 4.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn reverse, by unidentified hand on tape, in ink: 5958; on attached post-it note: living room left of fireplace.
MarkingsOn recto, stamped middle in black ink: SAUL STEINBERG / P.O. BOX 740 / AMAGANSETT, N.Y. 11930.
Vassar Exhibitions
Label TextSaul Steinberg, the cartoonist and artist known for his New Yorker covers and drawings, explored time as a theme throughout his career. His drawings and sculptures of clocks were numerous, including sketches, a sequential drawing of a clock ticking away its face from All in Line (1945), and later three-dimensional timepieces like this one. This clock was one of several working timepieces he made, installing it by the living room fireplace in his Amagansett home. The aluminum face bears his return address stamp at center alongside twelve small gouache marks that replace numerals. Departing from his usual humor or conceptual complexity, this work operates with quiet functionality. Steinberg was “constantly giving form to time” through his art, and here the form is domestic, functional, and unassuming.
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