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Saul Steinberg: A Biography

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by Deirdre Bair


  “I don’t quite belong”: J. R. Cochran, “He Seldom Lays Eggs,” New Haven Register, July 1973.

  ILLUSTRATION credits

  IN TEXT

  2.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  2.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  5.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  5.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  5.3 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  9.1 Photo by George Platt Lynes, courtesy of the Russell Lynes Estate.

  9.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  10.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  10.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  10.3 Courtesy of Claire Nivola.

  11.1 Hedda Sterne, Untitled [Circus], 1945. Oil on canvas, 39 x 34 in. © Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.

  11.2 Hedda Sterne, New York, NY, 1955. Oil on canvas, 36 x 60 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, gift of anonymous donor, © Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.

  11.3 Hedda Sterne, Antro II. Oil on canvas, 31 ½ x 51 in. Private collection, © Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.

  12.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  13.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  15.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  16.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.

  16.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  19.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  23.1 Theodore Brauner, Hedda, c. 1963–65, The Estate of Theodore Brauner / Courtesy of the Janos Gat Gallery, New York, and the Hedda Sterne Foundation, New York.

  25.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  27.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  30.1 Courtesy of Priscilla Morgan.

  31.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  33.1 Courtesy of Claire Nivola.

  33.2 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.

  35.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.

  35.2 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.

  38.1 Estate of Evelyn Hofer.

  40.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  41.1 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  41.2 Courtesy of Saul Steinberg Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

  43.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.

  44.1 Courtesy of Priscilla Morgan.

  44.2 Courtesy of Claire Nivola.

  45.1 Courtesy of Anton van Dalen.

  INDEX

  Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  ABCedarian (Steinberg), 21.1, nts.1n

  ABC for Collectors of American Contemporary Art

  Abraham Lincoln High School

  Abrams, Harry

  abstract expressionism, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 18.1, 20.1, 27.1

  Accademia di Brera

  Adam Baumgold Gallery

  Addams, Barbara

  Addams, Charles, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 18.1, 26.1, 46.1

  Adler, Ellen

  Adler, Renata

  Adler, Stella

  Adolf (maternal uncle)

  Advance Publications

  African-Americans, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1, 22.1, 28.1, 31.1

  Agarwal, Meera E.

  AIDS test, Steinberg and Spaeth

  Albers, Josef, 14.1, 41.1

  Alexander, Shana

  Alfred A. Knopf, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 26.1, 42.1, 43.1, 43.2

  Algonquin Room, 15.1, 18.1, 23.1

  Allen, Ariane

  Allen, Woody

  All Except You (Steinberg and Barthes)

  All in Line (Steinberg), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1

  “Alone in the World” (Gorky)

  Alsop, Joseph

  Altamirano, Carlos

  American Academy

  American Academy of Arts and Letters, 35.1, 39.1, 42.1, 43.1

  “American Corrida, The” (Steinberg)

  American Council of Learned Societies

  American Export Lines, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, nts.1n

  American Express Bank, 16.1, 21.1, 28.1

  American Gothic (Wood)

  American in Paris, An, 14.1, 16.1

  American Institute of Graphic Arts

  American Jewish Congress

  American Mercury, 7.1, 7.2

  Americans, The (Frank)

  “America’s Unfinished Business”

  “America Today” (Steinbeck)

  Amin, Idi

  Amory, Cleveland

  Andersen, Peter

  Angelini, Sandro, 5.1, 5.2, 28.1, 33.1

  Angell, Carole

  Angell, Roger, 23.1, 23.2, 42.1, 43.1

  Angelus (Millet), 2.1, 33.1

  Angry Arts

  Annabella (French actress), 14.1, 14.2

  Annoni, Ambrogio

  Anshen, Ruth Nanda, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4

  Antonescu, Ion, 6.1, 10.1

  Antonioni, Michelangelo, 22.1, 26.1, 28.1

  Aragno, Anna

  Aragno, Riccardo, 29.1, 29.2

  Aragon, Louis

  Arche

  Architectural Forum

  Archives of American Art, 12.1, 26.1

  Arlen, Harold

  Armstrong, Tom, 36.1, 37.1

  Arno, Peter

  Arrau, Claudio

  Art and Illusion (Gombrich), 15.1, 25.1

  Art Deco

  Art Digest

  Art in America

  Art Institute of Chicago, 14.1, 26.1, 34.1

  Artists and Writers Protest

  Art News, 11.1, 13.1, 31.1

  Art of Living, The (Steinberg), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  Art of This Century, 9.1, 11.1

  Ascher, Aaron

  Ashton, Dore, 2.1, 25.1, 29.1, 30.1, 32.1, 33.1, 37.1, 39.1, 40.1

  Aslan, Matty

  Asquith, H. H.

  Association of American Artists

  Astor, Brooke

  Atelier Steinberg, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Atheneum Publishers

  Attica Brothers Legal Defense Fund

  Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, The (Cellini)

  Babette’s Feast (Dinesen)

  Bach, Julian

  Bachardy, Don

  Baekeland, Barbara Daly, 24.1, 25.1, nts.1n

  Balanchine, George

  Baldwin, Ben

  Ballerini, Luigi

  Balzac, Honoré de, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 29.1, 30.1

  Banquet Years, The (Shattuck)

  “Barbe” (Beard) (Steinberg)

  Bardi, Lina Bo

  Bardi, Pietro

  Barefoot Contessa, The

  Barnacle, Nora

  Barney, Natalie Clifford

  Barr, A
lfred, 16.1, 18.1

  Barry, Iris, 12.1, 14.1

  Barthelme, Donald, 34.1, 39.1, nts.1n

  Barthelme, Marion

  Barthes, Roland, 34.1, 36.1, 41.1, 41.2

  Barzun, Jacques, 16.1, 16.2

  Bassow, Judith Steinberg, 16.1, 38.1, epi.1, nts.1n

  Bataille, Georges

  Baudelaire, Charles

  Bauhaus, 5.1, 6.1, 21.1

  Baziotes, William, 9.1, 16.1

  BBC

  BBPR, 5.1, 16.1, 16.2

  Beach, Sylvia

  Beard, Bill

  Beattie, Ann, 46.1, 46.2

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 12.1, 16.1, 34.1

  Beck, Julian

  Beckett, Samuel, 24.1, 30.1, epi.1

  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 44.1, epi.1

  Bellow, Janice

  Bellow, Saul, 12.1, 14.1, 27.1, 33.1, 39.1, 39.2, 41.1, 43.1, 44.1, epi.1

  Belmont Park Raceway, 21.1, 24.1

  Bemelmans, Ludwig

  Bend Sinister (Nabokov)

  Berggruen Gallery

  Berghof, Herbert, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1, 26.1

  Bergman, Ingmar

  Berlin, Isaiah, 18.1, 42.1

  “Berlin” (Steinberg)

  Bernhard, Thomas

  Bernstein, Victor

  Bertoldo, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 26.1, 44.1, nts.1n, nts.2n

  Bertolucci, Attilio

  Bessie, Simon Michael “Mike”, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 22.1

  Biala, Janice, 14.1, 24.1

  Bibliothèque Nationale de France

  “Bicycle as a Metaphor of America, The” (Steinberg)

  Bill of Rights Journal

  Bird, Kenneth, n

  Birstein, Ann

  Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (West)

  Blackwell, Earl

  Blake, William, 41.1, epi.1

  “Bleecker Street” (Steinberg)

  Blitzer, Charles

  Block, Herb

  Bloe, Serge de

  Bloom, Allan

  “Bloomsday”, 2.1, 24.1

  Blow, Richard

  Blue Wine (Hollander)

  Boccasile, Gino

  Bodian, Martin H.

  Bohlen, Avis

  Bohlen, Charles “Chip”, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3

  Böll, Heinrich

  Bollingen Press, 15.1, 27.1

  Bolshoi Ballet

  Bonjour Tristesse (Sagan)

  Book-of-the-Month Club

  Bouché, René, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1

  Bourgeois, Louise, 14.1, nts.1n

  Boxer, Sarah

  Boyd, Brian

  Bradley, Jennie (Mrs. Williams), 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 28.1, 29.1

  Brancacci, Mario

  Brancusi, Constantin

  Brandeis University

  Braque, Georges, 15.1, 27.1

  Brauner, Jacqueline

  Brauner, Theodore

  Brauner, Victor, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 16.1, 22.1

  Brave New World (Huxley)

  Brennan, Maeve

  Breton, André, 9.1, 18.1, 30.1

  Breuer, Connie, 14.1, 23.1, 26.1

  Breuer, Marcel, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 23.1, 35.1

  Bridgeport, University of

  Brodovitch, Alexey, 16.1, 28.1

  Brodsky, Joseph

  Brooks, Charlotte

  Brooks, James, 9.1, 23.1

  Brooks Brothers, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 19.1, 33.1

  Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky)

  Brown, Kay

  Brown, Tina, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 44.1, 44.2

  Broyard, Anatole

  Bruzzichelli, Aldo, 10.1

  Bugnano, Carlo di

  Bulgaria, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Buñuel, Luis, 18.1, 27.1

  Burden, Amanda

  Burden, Carter

  Burghers of Calais, The (Rodin)

  Butor, Michel, 30.1, 34.1

  Buzău, Romania, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 46.1

  Buzzi, Aldo, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11, 12.12, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 24.1, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 28.1, 28.2, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, 31.1, 31.2, 33.1, 33.2, 33.3, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4, 34.5, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 35.4, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 38.1, 39.1, 39.2, 39.3, 39.4, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 41.4, 41.5, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 43.4, 44.1, 44.2, 44.3, 44.4, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 46.5, 47.1

  Buzzi, Tommaso, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, nts.1n

  Cabaret Voltaire

  cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), 22.1, nts.1n

  Cafavy, Constantine

  Calder, Alexander “Sandy”, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 20.1, 27.1, 29.1, 30.1, 31.1, 36.1

  Calder, Louisa, 13.1, 14.1, 20.1, 27.1, 31.1, 36.1

  Caldwell, Erskine, 13.1, 14.1

  California Council of the American Institute of Architects

  California Eyes West

  Calvino, Italo, 30.1, 36.1, 42.1, 44.1

  Campanile, Achille, 5.1, 5.2

  Campus, Eugen, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 46.1, nts.1n

  Camus, Albert

  Canaletto

  Canal Street (Steinberg and Frazier)

  Canard Enchaîné

  Candide (Voltaire), 10.1, 18.1

  Canfield, Cass, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1, 29.1, 43.1

  Cantacuzino, George Matei

  Cantemir, Dimitrie

  Capote, Truman

  Capri, Agnes

  Carboni, Erberto, 5.1, 6.1

  Carnegie, Hattie

  Carnegie Institute, 12.1, 13.1, 33.1

  Carol I, King of Romania, 2.1, 2.2

  Carol II, King of Romania

  Caron, Leslie

  Carpentry and Cabinet Making (Oakwood)

  Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 18.1, 26.1, 30.1, 34.1, 42.1, 46.1, 46.2

  Cartier-Bresson, Monique

  Casanova, Giacomo

  Cassino (Steinberg)

  Cassola, Ada “Adina”, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 21.1, 24.1, 27.1, 30.1, 33.1, 33.2, 34.1, 35.1, 36.1, 36.2, 37.1, 41.1, 42.1, 43.1, 45.1, 46.1, 46.2, nts.1n

  Castelli, Leo

  Castello Sforzesco

  Catalogue, The (Steinberg)

  Cathedral of Sveti-Tskhoveli

  Catherine II “the Great,” Empress of Russia

  Cavazza, Angela

  Cavazza, Carla, 5.1, 6.1

  Cavazza, Maria

  Cavazza, Natalina, 5.1, 6.1

  Ceaus¸escu, Nicolae, 43.1, 46.1, 46.2

  Cedar Tavern, 9.1, 25.1, 25.2, 27.1

  Celebrity Register

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1.1, 10.1

  Century Association, 18.1, 35.1

  Cézanne, Paul, 44.1, nts.1n

  Chagall, Meyer

  Chaplin, Charlie, 35.1, epi.1

  Chaplin, Geraldine

  Char, René

  Charkow, Natalie

  Chasen, Dave

  Chekhov, Anton, 3.1, 27.1, 38.1

  Chelsea Flower Show

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Chiaromonte, Miriam

  Chiaromonte, Nicola, 12.1, 14.1, 17.1, 21.1, 22.1, 27.1, 30.1, 35.1

  Chiesa, Pietro

  “Chinese Lesson”

  Chirico, Giorgio de

  Christie’s

  Christo, 30.1, 46.1, nts.1n

  Chucklebait: Funny Stories for Everyone (Scoggin), 9.1, 12.1

  Churchill, Winston

  Cincinnati Art Museum

  Cioara, Leonida

  Cioran, Emil, 3.1, 43.1, 46.1

  City, The (Steinberg)

  Civita, Cesar, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5,
7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1

  Civita, Victor, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1

  Clayeux, Louis Gabriel

  Clemente, Egidio

  “Coast, The” (Steinberg)

  Cobean, Sam, 12.1, 14.1

  Cobweb, The

  Codreanu, Corneliu Zelea

  Cohen, Micu

  Cold Cuts

  Colette, 23.1, 36.1

  “Collage of Indignation”

  College Bowl

  Columbia Pictures, 37.1, 42.1, nts.1n

  Columbia University, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2, 29.1, 30.1, 30.2, 32.1, 33.1, 40.1

  Comédie Humaine, La (Balzac), 13.1, 14.1

  Comencini, Luigi

  Coming Up for Air (Orwell)

  Commentary

  “Comments about buildings in USSR” (Steinberg)

  communism, 12.1, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 21.1

  Comptometer

  Conant, James Bryant

  Concert, The (Robbins)

  Confucius, 14.1, 20.1

  Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 28.1, 31.1

  Conrad, Joseph

  Constructivism

  Cook, Ted

  Coolidge, Mrs. Harold

  Cooper-Hewitt Museum

  Copland, Aaron

  Corcoran Gallery of Art, 16.1, 34.1

  Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery

  Cornell, Joseph, 18.1, 20.1

  Corpul Tehnical Arhitectilor (Architects’ Technical Association)

  Corriere della Sera, 10.1, 21.1

  Così fan tutte (Mozart)

  Costin, Miron

  Count Ory (Rossini)

  Courbet, Gustave, 35.1, 38.1, nts.1n

  Courter, Elodie

  “Cousins” (Steinberg)

  Covarrubias, Miguel, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Covarrubias, Rosa, 13.1, 13.2

  Cowles, Fleur

  Credo Perspectives, 31.1, 31.2

  Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)

  Crome Yellow (Huxley)

  Crosby, Bing

  Crowther, Prudence, 43.1, 44.1, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 46.4, 46.5, 46.6, 46.7, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, epi.1, epi.2

  Crucea de Piatra (Stone Cross) district

  Crumb, R., 34.1, epi.1

  Cubism, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 22.1, 27.1, 29.1

  Cuza, Alexander Ioan, 2.1, 2.2

  Dada, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1

  Daedalus

  Dalí, Salvador, 12.1, 24.1, 26.1

  Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

  Dal Vero (Steinberg), 41.1, 41.2

  Damaz, Ala

  Damisch, Hubert

  Danson, Harold, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1

  Danson, Henrietta Steinberg, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 37.1, 42.1, 45.1

  Danto, Arthur, 43.1, 45.1

  Danusso, Arturo, 5.1, 5.2

 

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