Saul Steinberg papers

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Saul Steinberg papers

1417-2001 (bulk 1931-1999)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.steinberg

The Saul Steinberg Papers consist of correspondence, artwork, professional papers, personal papers, photographs, published artwork, clippings, collected and source material, realia, financial papers, and audio-visual material documenting artist Saul Steinberg’s professional and personal activities. The papers document Steinberg’s development as an artist, his career as a fine artist and as an illustrator for the The New Yorker magazine, his travels, his personal life, and his personal and professional relationships, including his relationships with his wife artist Hedda Sterne and with his partner Sigrid Spaeth. Spaeth’s papers, consisting of correspondence, photographs, personal papers, professional papers, and some audio-visual materials, are also included. The bulk of the papers date from 1931-1999, primarily from Steinberg’s life after immigrating to the United States in 1942. Also included are ephemera, manuscripts, and other printed material from the 15th-19th centuries collected by Steinberg during his lifetime.

578.6 Linear Feet ((567 boxes) + 2 rolls, 86 broadsides, 1 record album storage)

eng, Latn

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11621546

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Steinberg, Saul, 1914-1999

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c6494b (person)

Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American artist and illustrator, known for his visual commentary on American life created for The New Yorker magazine during the 1940s through 1990s, as well as for his drawings, paintings, collages, and sculpture. Steinberg was born on June 15, 1914 in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, to Moritz Steinberg and Rosa Steinberg (née Jacobson). Steinberg had one older sister, Lica Roman (née Steinberg), born a year earlier. During Steinberg’s childhood, the family lived on S...