Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
"Saul Steinberg: Illuminations," opens this week at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. The New York Times calls the show "a major retrospective" and Steinberg a "cartoonist extraordinaire . . . a veritable Leonardo of graphic drollery." The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College organized the show with Joel Smith, the former curator of the Loeb Center and now the curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Steinberg produced no fewer than 87 covers, 333 cartoons, and 71 portfolios containing 469 drawings for The New Yorker, besides hundreds of other works. The show displays more than 100 drawings, collages, and constructions, including the New Yorker cover that positions Manhattan at the center of the world, as well as his lesser know works and early cartoons.
Smith also wrote the catalog (Yale University Press 2006), which The New York Times calls "brightly written."
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