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The most poignant of Steinberg’s time-maps is the one he produced for a New Yorker cover in 1997, just as Year 2K anxieties were getting under way. Original drawing for The New Yorker cover, January 6, 1997. 2000, 1996. Pencil, ink, watercolor, crayon, and collage on paper, 21 ½ x 14 1/8 in. Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Gift of The ...
Jan 13, 2019 · That’s just the sort of thing I think Steinberg might have found, in the way of a Russian novel, both funny and sad. Speaking of Hughes, he wrote one of his glorious capsule biographies (in Time) about Steinberg, calling “View of the World from 9th Avenue” “a classic commentary on the provincialism of great cities.” That is so, but ...
- Regional Lampoon
- “30 Years Older”
- Mocking Government Attitudes
- Whose Faces Are these?
- Washington, New York’s Annex
- Christmas Present Turns Into A Hit
- Who Is A Bostonian?
- Disinterest and Disdain
- “18,000 Ridiculous and Hazardous Miles”
- Two Map Strands
That certainly applies to a strand of satirical cartography we could call “exaggerated regional chauvinism” — a school in which maps skew perspectives or enlarge certain areas, to lampoon the supposed self-importance of the localities involved, as well as that of their inhabitants. Those somewhat familiar with this cartographic theme already (right...
“Perception-based cartography is at least 30 years older than I thought it was,” tweeted Tim Wallace, Senior Editor for Geography at the New York Times, back in 2016. That’s when he came across a 1908 cartoon from the Chicago Tribune, showing a septet of old white men, all balding, most chomping cigars and one pointing to a map of the United States...
To prevent similar crises, Aldrich-Vreeland gave banks the permission to issue emergency currency. A more permanent solution would be the establishment, a few years later, of the Federal Reserve Bank. But we’re over-explaining the cartoon. Titled “Map of the United States as seen by the Finance Committee of the United States Senate,” it mocks the a...
Intriguingly, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston (and perhaps also DC) are shaped like silhouettes of faces that may have been familiar to newspaper readers of the time. The cartoon is by John McCutcheon (1870-1949), the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, which printed his cartoons on the front page for 40 years. Even in lif...
New York is a building with a classic Greek front (possibly symbolizing the Stock Exchange), which has “Washington” as an annex. As far as the eye can see stretch fields of sugar, cotton, and tobacco, orchards and vegetable gardens, corn and wheat fields, fish ponds (the Great Lakes) and livestock ranches (the West), mines (California) and oil well...
Wallingford, an industrial engineer by trade, also dabbled in mapmaking. In 1932, he had 100 copies printed of his “A New Yorker’s Idea of the United States of America” to distribute among his friends as Christmas presents. It proved such a hit that he had to issue a second print run, which he began to distribute via mail order. His map, originally...
This one is certainly wordier than his first endeavor, both on the map and in the legend. First, he attempts a definition of what, in 1936, constituted a Bostonian: not necessarily someone born and residing in Boston, but rather someone born in Hingham and residing in Newton — apparently because such a person was much more likely to spend time in E...
Like its New York counterpart, this Boston map exudes disinterest and disdain for the vast wasteland that is most of the United States. Even the Great Lakes warrant nothing bigger than puddle size. Yet all in all, the fun being poked is fairly mild. A separate label glories in the many fine universities in Boston and environs, although it admits th...
As the map points out, it’s “about 18,000 ridiculous and hazardous miles” from the “Big Town” (New York) and “Dodger Land” (Brooklyn) to California. (Ironically, the Dodgers managed the move to Los Angeles just fine, a mere 10 years later.) On this map, California is beset by ice and snow, floods and washouts, icebergs and sandstorms. The “Califool...
Clearly, we can now distinguish two different strands of “exaggerated regional chauvinism” maps. And it is more than likely, and in fact rather obvious, that Steinberg’s famous 1976 cartoon showing what the world looks like from New York’s 9th Avenue is not a descendant of Wallingford’s hypertrophied map from 1932 but of McCutcheon’s forced perspec...
Oct 13, 2022 · “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” is a famous New Yorker cover, from 1976.Illustrated by Saul Steinberg, its lower half features a meticulously detailed aerial view of Manhattan’s Ninth and Tenth Avenues, with the Hudson River cutting a thick horizontal line over the city grid; above the river, squeezed into the cover’s upper half, is the rest of the world.
Biography. Saul Steinberg (1914 -1999) was a masterful artist who relished his engagement with the visual world and post-war society in 20th century America. Although best known for his incisive wit and brilliant New Yorker drawings created over six decades, he moved across disciplines with assurance and ease, creating art for all manner of things, from wallpapers and fabrics to public murals ...
May 14, 1999 · Saul Steinberg, the artist and cartoonist whose sharply honed sense of life's absurdities endowed half a century of drawings and illustrations with wit, whimsy and biting social commentary, died ...
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May 26, 2017 · As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little of Saul Steinberg's that I can steal, the crossover in the Venn diagram of the image-as-itself versus as-what-it-represents being depressingly slim. I am painfully aware that in comics, stories generally kill the image. But Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader ...
