Saul Steinberg

© 1960, Inge Morath

Saul Steinberg

On view

Print and Drawings
Howard Mele Gallery

Saul Steinberg,

1960

Inge Morath, 1923–2002; born Graz, Austria; died New York, NY
2009-146
In 1956, soon after joining Magnum Photos in New York, Morath showed up at the Manhattan home of Saul Steinberg, who greeted her wearing over his head a paper bag on which he had drawn a self-portrait. Thus began a collaborative enterprise known as “The Mask Series,” consisting of staged photographs taken by Morath of Steinberg either on his own or with others.

Information

Title
Saul Steinberg
Dates

1960

Maker
Inge Morath
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 32.9 × 25.7 cm (12 15/16 × 10 1/8 in.) sheet: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.) mount: 40.8 × 33 cm (16 1/16 × 13 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Prudence Crowther in honor of Joel Smith
Object Number
2009-146
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Culture
Austrian
Type
photographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
mounting, gelatin silver process
Subject
figures (representations), cartoonists, men, portraits, masks (costume)

The artist. Acquired by Prudence Crowther, after 1959; given to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

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