Untitled
1945
ink
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1945
ink
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1945 ink by Saul Steinberg, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tangle of ink lines—some thick, some thin—sketching a city street that’s half real, half doodle. Buildings lean like they’re made of rubber, and a tiny figure walks a dog that looks more like a scribble. Steinberg drew this in 1945, right after World War II. He was playing with how we see places: part map, part memory, part joke. The lines don’t just outline things—they act like they’re alive, wiggling on the page. Want to see more of this kind of playful drawing? Look up cross-hatching.
