Drawing, French Railway

Saul Steinberg

1950

brush and gouache, brush and ink, conte crayon, color pencil and graphite on paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A night scene depicts trains, people with luggage, and a building with a clock and buffet advertisement. Night scene of trains and tracks, a building, and people with suitcases. At right, in foreground, the front of a locomotive, with smoke or steam rising. People with luggage in middle ground, between tracks. Behind, another locomotive with passenger car with arched windows. In background, rendered in light hues, a building whose front sports a clock, and advertises a buffet. A ghostly structure rendered in white on black background at left. Gift of Saul Steinberg Foundation