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Saul Steinberg: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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June 7 – October 5, 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Saul Steinberg: Brilliant Witty Inventive Cerebral<\/em> is drawn from the museum\u2019s collection of the artist\u2019s works, a gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation. The ten prints, four drawings, and one watercolor, created between 1965 and 1984, represent many of the playful and intriguing juxtapositions of subjects, styles, and inventive graphic means he is recognized for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saul Steinberg (b. Romania 1914, d. New York 1999) is known worldwide for his drawings reproduced in The New Yorker<\/em> magazine. From the 1940s until the late 1990s, he created over 80 covers and 1200 internal drawings for the magazine, many of which have since been repeatedly reprinted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a career that spanned seven decades, Steinberg also created collages, public murals, theater sets, and paintings and sculptures for galleries and exhibitions.<\/s> However, he always returned to works on paper, blurring the lines between high art and low, and enchanting viewers with his seemingly endless visual vocabulary. Defining drawing as \u201ca way of reasoning on paper,\u201d he created a graphic vocabulary that includes collage, the juxtaposition of styles, letters and words, the line, and stamps. His remarkable oeuvre is replete with works that could be described as absurd, cerebral, witty, childlike, hilarious, insightful, and a painful critique of contemporary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saul Steinberg: Brilliant Witty Inventive Cerebral\u00a0<\/em>will also include a selection of his\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>covers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead Curator: Dan Mills
Curatorial Intern: Jensen Nida ’24<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover image: Untitled<\/em>, 1967, ink on Passantino Brand sheet music paper, 19 x 14 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sam\u2019s Art<\/em>, 1966, lithograph on Rives BFK, 22 x 30 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dancing Couple<\/em> (detail), 1965-1974, lithograph on woven paper, 22 1\/2 x 30 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled<\/em>, 1967, ink on Passantino Brand sheet music paper, 19 x 14 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled<\/em>, 1968, lithograph on Arches, 22 1\/2 x 30 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled<\/em>, 1970, screenprint on Rives BFK, 26 x 21 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Papeterie<\/em>, 1973, lithograph on Rives BFK, 25 1\/2 x 19 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Three Landscapes<\/em>, 1976, Screenprint, lithograph, drypoint on Dutch Etching paper, 29 x 21 1\/2 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.3.a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled<\/em>, 1980, watercolor and pencil on MBM Ingres de\u2019Arches, 25 3\/4 x 19 3\/4 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9 The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Provincetown<\/em>, 1984, etching and drypoint on Rives BFK, 21 3\/8 x 25 in., Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation \u00a9The Saul Steinberg Foundation\/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022.11.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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