1946

Frequent meetings in New York with a group of artists, designers, architects, and authors, many of them émigrés like himself, including Tino Nivola, Alexander Calder, Bernard Rudofsky, Leo Lionni, Marcel Breuer, and Le Corbusier. Through Richard Lindner, meets German émigré photographer Evelyn Hofer, who becomes a good friend and will photograph ST at regular intervals throughout his life.

Begins producing designs for fabrics and wallpapers (into the early 1950s). New Yorker drawings as well as drawings for other magazines continue, as does work for advertising agencies.

June, in Provincetown with Hedda.

September 10-December 8, 27 drawings in “Fourteen Americans” exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fellow exhibitors include Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Theodore Roszak, and Mark Tobey. A reduced version of the exhibition, with 10 Steinberg drawings, travels to Vassar College, the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, the Cincinnati Modern Art Society, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. This tour represents the first national exposure of Steinberg’s gallery art.

July-December, based in Paris, also travels in England, Italy, and Germany. Aldo Buzzi visits him in Paris. Begins his friendship with photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who introduces him to Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

As a pictorial reporter for The New Yorker, goes to Nuremberg in August to cover the war crimes trials. After a brief stay, abandons the project.

October, in Berlin. Makes drawings of postwar military life that will appear in a New Yorker portfolio.

Returns to Paris; back in New York by Christmas. Rents a studio at 107 East 60th St.