Art, literature & historyParade
1951
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and rubber stamps in various colors, with watercolor and colored crayon, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 36.8 × 59 cm (14 1/2 × 23 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2013.1512
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Parade — Saul Steinberg. 1951.
Medium: Pen and black ink and rubber stamps in various colors, with watercolor and colored crayon, on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: 36.8 × 59 cm (14 1/2 × 23 1/4 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Throughout his work, Steinberg employed numerous graphic equivalents for language. Here, he presents an inventory of symbols on parade: imprints from readymade rubber stamps, hand-drawn spirals and lines, and watercolor squiggles. Each mark is isolated and presented as if it has physical heft, making them like nouns or things, rather than—as they usually are—adjectives or modifiers that describe something else.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.