Saul steinberg

Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) redefined the possibilities of drawing, casting it as a philosophical investigation, “a way of reasoning on paper.”His ingenious experiments with drawing and other media, including photography, collage, and sculpture, earned him critical acclaim as a modernist artist in the post-war period, while his numerous drawings and covers for The New Yorker made him dear to a broad American public—the people whose daily lives and customs became the subject of his art. ​

The Saul Steinberg installation comprises 34 drawings, a sketchbook, and a photograph. These works were a generous gift from The Saul Steinberg Foundation.

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 follows not only his line, but also his line of thought.

The Saul Steinberg installation comprises 34 drawings, a sketchbook, and a photograph. These works were a generous gift from The Saul Steinberg Foundation.

The late 1960s and early 1970s—like other moments in Steinberg’s career—saw more than one stylistic or conceptual innovation. The most arresting, and

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January, begins working on Brussels mural commission, now titled The Americans—8 themed sections, 10 feet high and 240 feet in total length. February 27,

PACE GALLERY presents 'saul steinberg: imagined interiors', the first in a series of thematic, solo exhibitions created for the gallery's online platform.