[Woman on Steps]
Saul Steinberg American, born Romania
Not on view
Appearing as if sketched on a city stoop, this well-dressed woman is not quite what she seems: Steinberg inked her image onto the surface of his print, stretching the limits of street photography. The illustrator took cues from graffiti while also playfully reimagining the chalk outlines found at crime scenes. Whether marking up photographs, as here, or drawing on objects that he then photographed, Steinberg effortlessly upended media hierarchies to create hybrid works of art. This piece may be an outtake from his New York–themed series for the magazine Flair, which pictured anthropomorphic office furniture and a trash bag skyline. Steinberg’s sidewalk society lady is right at home in that urban imaginary, as cartoonish as the city itself.
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![[Woman on Steps], Saul Steinberg (American (born Romania), Râmincul-Sarat 1914–1999 New York), Gelatin silver print with applied media](/Rodan/dist/svg/rolling-0.9s-30px.svg)
