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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 11, 2019 · The bull has split apart, become both the shoeshine man and the street dwellers. A child’s idea of a myth from global literature has become an idea of city life in postwar Europe. The violence ...
Saul Steinberg (American, born Romania, 1914–99) had one of the most remarkable and varied careers in postwar American art. While known for the drawings that graced the cover of the New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited in galleries and museums throughout 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 ...
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 ...
Nov 25, 2012 · The art of Saul Steinberg. A draft board declared Steinberg both physically and psychologically unfit for combat, but, through his social connections, he managed to become both an American citizen ...
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SAUL STEINBERG’S “WRITTEN” PICTURES. By Joseph Masheck. For D.L. G. SAUL STEINBERG’S WORK HAS remained for a long time on the periphery of the world of art, although just inside its frontier. His is the kind of work that artists would know about and admire, but that would be thought too idiosyncratic to have much pertinence as art.
