Saul Steinberg

(American, 1914–1999)

new york harbor with ferry boats and victorian houses - holiday magazine cover by saul steinberg

Saul Steinberg

New York Harbor with Ferry boats and Victorian Houses - Holiday Magazine Cover, 1951

60,000 USD

Biography

Timeline

1914
Born: in Râmnicu Sãrat, Romania
1932
Studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest, Romania
1933 - 1940
Studied architecture at the Politecnico in Milan, Italy
1941
Started publishing regularly in The New Yorker
1999
Died: in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2017
Saul Steinberg Exhibitions in 2017:
Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2015
Saul Steinberg Exhibitions in 2015:
Steinberg a Milano, Politecinico di Milano, Scuola di Architettura, Italy
Aldo Buzzi e Saul Steinberg: Un’amicizia tra letteratura, arte e cibo, Galleria Credito Valtellinese, Sondrio, Italy, March 19–May 24, 2015; Museo della satira e della caricatura a Villa Bertelli, Forte dei Marmi, Italy, June 6–November 1, 2015; Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan, January 13–February 6, 2016. (Catalogue)
2014
Saul Steinberg Exhibitions in 2014:
Steinberg, Galeria A|34, Barcelona, Spain
Saul Steinberg Drawings | Architecture Public Space, The Center for Architecture, New York, NY
Saul Steinberg: Architecture By Line, EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, France
Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY
Saul Steinberg, Works from the 50’s–80’s, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Saul Steinberg: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of His Birth, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2013
Saul Steinberg Exhibitions in 2013:
Saul Steinberg: The Americans, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2012
Saul Steinberg Exhibitions in 2012:
Saul Steinberg, A34, Barcelona, Spain
Saul Steinberg: The New Yorker—New York 1945–2000, Yale University Contemporary Art Center, Portland, Oregon
2011
Saul Steinberg: As aventuras da linha (The Adventures of the Line), Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, May 28–August 21, 2011. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, September 3–November 6, 2011. (Catalogue)
2009 - 2010
Saul Steinberg: L'Écriture visuelle, Musée Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg, France (solo)
Saul Steinberg: Works from the 50s–80s, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition, Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York, NY
American Iconography, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Saul Steinberg: Landscapes, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Saul Steinberg: Works from the 50's-80's., Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
A Walk on the Beach, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, NY
2008
Saul Steinberg: Tables and Other Sculptures, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
Saul Steinberg, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
L'Art Contemporain à l'Exposition Universelle Expo '58, Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Works on Paper, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
All for Art! Great Private Collections Among Us, Museé des beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada
2007
A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg’s New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY (solo)
Saul Steinberg: Works from the 50’s–80’s, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cartoon Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York, New York
Fondation Giacometti, Paris
Fondation le Corbusier, Paris
Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York, New York
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Jewish Museum, New York
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan
Karikaturmuseum, Krems, Austria
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, New York
Musée National D’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Palm Springs Art Museum, California
Portland Art Museum, Maine
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Tomi Ungerer Museum, Strasbourg, France
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Wilhelm-Busch-Museum, Hannover, Germany
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Literature

2017
Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg (exhibition catalogue). Texts by James Rondeau, Mark Pascale, Mark Pascale, and Chris Ware. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.
2015
Puddle, Pothole, Portal. Text by Ruba Katrib, Sypros Papapetros, Serge Daney. New York: Sculpture Center, 2015.
2014
Steinbert, Saul. The Line / Types of Architecture; Shores of the Mediterranean / Cities of Italy (artist book). Zurich: Nieves, 2014; Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Text by Joel Smith. New York: Pace Gallery, 2014.
2013
Saul Steinberg: The Americans (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Melissa Renn, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Andreas Prinzing et al. Cologne: Snoeck Verlag, 2013.
2012
Bair, Deirdre. Saul Steinberg: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 2012; David Shrigley: Brain Activity (exhibition catalogue). London: Hayward Publishing, 2012: 82, illustrated.