Saul Steinberg Illuminations at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London

Posted on November 7th, 2008

Saul Steinberg (1914 – 1999), an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades, is the subject of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest winter exhibition. It’s a retrospective which features more than a hundred drawings, collages and sculptural assemblages by the artist whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era. This exhibition is the first full scale review of his career.

Born in Romania, Steinberg studied architecture in the 1930s in Milan, where he gained early fame as a cartoonist. In America after World War II, he became a propagandist, illustrator, fabric and card designer, muralist, fashion and advertising artist, stage designer and the tireless creator of image-jammed books. In the 1960s he decided to concentrate on art for gallery shows and for The New Yorker.

The exhibition covers the whole range of his work, from high art to low, from murals to magazines, from caricature to cartography. To see the full scope of Steinberg’s career is to get a close-up of the energy and contradictions of the 20th century. The exhibition will also will make the visitor smile a lot.

Saul Steinberg: Illuminations was organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. The European tour, under the auspices of The Saul Steinberg Foundation, is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, with additional funding from PaceWildenstein Gallery.

Saul Steinberg Illuminations
26 November 2008 -15 February 2009
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD
T: 020 8693 5254 F: 020 8299 8700

Open: Tue-Fri 10am–5pm; weekends & BH Mondays 11am–5pm. Closed Mondays
Late Night at Dulwich: The Gallery is open from 6.30 to 10pm on the third Thursday of each month
BH Gallery and Exhibition £9; Seniors £8; Conc. £5. Free entry for children and Friends.

Related posts:

  1. Special Guests Announced for Japanese Art Festival in Richmond, London
  2. The World of Jewish Postcards at City Hall, London
  3. Daan Van Golden at Camden Arts Centre, 5 December 2008 – 8 February 2009


Comments are closed.