In 1961, Saul Steinberg created an extraordinary graffiti decoration of the atrium of the Palazzina Mayer in Milan, commissioned by Studio BBPR, which was overseeing the renovation of the building. It was an important work that followed other similar projects the great artist had undertaken in the United States and Europe over the previous fifteen years.
Presented by Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Saul Steinberg, a Romanian American artist, gained fame for his humorous illustrations in The New Yorker. However, his life was marked by adversity. Facing antisemitism in Romania, his family moved to Milan in 1933 where he worked briefly as an illustrator until Mussolini’s antisemitic ideas forced him to leave. After completing his architectural degree, he sought refuge in the Dominican Republic and began sending illustrations to US periodicals. By the time he arrived in New York City in 1942, his drawings were already a regular feature in The New Yorker. Steinberg became a US citizen and continued collaborating with The New Yorker while exhibiting his art worldwide. In 2021, the OSU Museum of Art received a significant donation of Steinberg’s work, showcased in the Line of Thought exhibition. Line of Thought explores the contrasts between the adversity Steinberg faced and the witty, satirical art he produced.
Saul Steinberg: Up Close. The Steinberg Collection at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan, October 5-November 26, 2022
An extensive exhibition, based on gifts to the library from The Saul Steinberg Foundation, focusing on the autobiographical character of Steinberg’s works and his personal associations. Catalogue available.
Saul Steinberg: Lines That Transform the Real World, at the ddd gallery in Kyoto, Japan, August 9 – October 15, 2023.
Design by Kijuro Yahagi
We are pleased to announce that our first major solo exhibition in Japan, held at ginza graphic gallery (ggg) from December 10 to March 12, 2021, will travel to Kyoto ddd Gallery.
The exhibition will feature a total of approximately 170 works, including posters donated by The Saul Steinberg Foundation, lithographs, etchings, and other valuable works , as well as reproductions of representative works, mainly drawings.
The works of Steinberg displayed at kyoto ddd gallery are mapped in 3D Cube, according to each perspective. Please choose any category that interests you, and enjoy Steinberg’s unique approach to his drawings, which are organized by keywords.
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Saul Steinberg: Between Line and Text
Exhibition catalogue by Adriana Šmejkalová. National Gallery Prague, 2023
Saul Steinberg: Between Line and Text, at the National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic, May 24 – August 10, 2023.
Based on gifts to the Museum from The Saul Steinberg Foundation.
Saul Steinberg: Material of Interest– Drawings, Paintings, Objects, Prints and Plates, at The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York, April 1- May 21, 2023
Saul Steinberg, at The Pace Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, March 31 – April 29, 2023.
“A Way of Reasoning on Paper”: The Art of Saul Steinberg, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, March 25-September 23, 2023
Based on gifts to the Museum from The Saul Steinberg Foundation.
Maske and Face/Maske und Gesichte: Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg, at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, February 25-June 18, 2023
At the Races with Saul Steinberg, at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs, New York, January 18-December 21, 2023.
Based on gifts to the Museum from The Saul Steinberg Foundation.
Mask and Face/Maske und Gesichte: Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg.
Exhibition catalogue by Kerstin Stremmel, Andrea Lehner-Hagwood, and John P. Jacob. Salzburg: Museum der Moderne, 2023.
Saul Steinberg: Up Close
Exhibition catalogue, edited by Francesca Pellicciari. Milan: Corraini Edizioni, 2022
Saul Steinberg: Milano New York at the Triennale Milano, Milan, October 15, 2021-May 1, 2022
The exhibition explores Steinberg’s roots in Milan, where he studied and worked from 1933 to 1941, and the resonance of his Italian experience in later works. Publication available.
Saul Steinberg: Entre les lignes at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 29, 2021-February 28, 2022
The exhibition brings together more than eighty of Steinberg’s works, based on gifts from The Saul Steinberg Foundation and loans from elsewhere. Among the highlights is the reconstruction of Steinberg’s collage-mural, Art Viewers, never seen since its installation at the Galerie Maeght in 1966. Catalogue available.
A Philosophical Game: An Interview with Saul Steinberg, The Paris Review Blog, November 4, 2021
A newly discovered 1971 interview with Steinberg about baseball, never before published.
Saul Steinberg: Entre les lignes
Exhibition catalogue, edited by Anne Montfort-Tanguy and Valérie Loth. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2021. English edition, Saul Steinberg: Between the Lines. Munich: Prestel, 2022.
Steinberg A-Z
Edited by Marco Belpoliti. Publication accompanying the exhibition “Saul Steinberg: Milano New York,” 2021.
Saul Steinberg: Selected Masterworks at Pucker Gallery in Boston. June 5 – July 11, 2021
Saul Steinberg General A, 1969 Watercolor and rubberstamp on paper 28.75 x 34.75” SS6
Jessica R. Feldman’s Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys
Published by the University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia and London, in 2021, Jessica R. Feldman’s Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys, the first book-length study of Steinberg’s art and its relation to literature, explores his complex literary roots, particularly his fondness for modernist aesthetics and iconography. The Steinberg who emerges is an artist of far greater depth than has been previously recognized.
Feldman begins with Steinberg as a reader and writer, including surveying his personal library. She considers the practice of modernist parody as the strongest affinity between Steinberg and the two authors he repeatedly claimed as his “teachers”—Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce. Viewing Steinberg’s art in tandem with readings of selected works by Nabokov and Joyce, Feldman illuminates the fascinating bonds between Steinberg and these writers, from their tastes for popular culture to their status as mythmakers, émigrés, and perpetual wanderers. Feldman also relates Steinberg’s uniquely literary art to a host of other authors, including Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Defoe.
Generously illustrated with the artist’s work and drawing on invaluable archival material from The Saul Steinberg Foundation, this innovative fusion of literary history and art history allows us to see anew Steinberg’s iconic art.
Saul Steinberg: Modernist Without Portfolio at the Parrish Art Museum. November 10, 2019 – April 2021
Famed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age, Saul Steinberg (American, b. Romania, 1914–1999) was renowned for the covers, drawings, and cartoons that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades. He was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. Steinberg crafted a rich and ever-evolving idiom that found full expression through these parallel careers, making no distinction between high and low art, which he freely mingled.
Saul Steinberg: Imagined Interiors at Pace Gallery. March 23, 2020 – April 6, 2020
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.
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.