April, 2006

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ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part three

Illustration Art

© The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Saul Steinberg was one of the greatest illustrators of all time. He was so damn smart you could warm your hands by the intellectual glow from his drawings. Yet, his content never overpowered his visual images; they worked hand in hand. Art critic Robert Hughes wrote that Steinberg exhibited a form of " graphic intelligence that had not been imagined in American illustration before him. " This lovely drawing is not one of his more f

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STEINBERG AT PLAY

Illustration Art

© The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY In the whole long clanging pageant of art, no artist ever combined words and pictures the way that Saul Steinberg did. He was truly an original. When Steinberg died, art critic Robert Hughes wrote, "He had no equals. Now he has no successors." The critic and philosopher Harold Rosenberg noted with admiration,"there is only one of his kind." © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Steinberg dealt with the mo

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