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04.12.08
It doesn’t get any better
The current exhibition running at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in South London on the late US illustrator Saul Steinberg has inspired us to dig out some of his classics and feature them here. 
Here’s a selection of classics from two very early books All in Line and The Art of Living, both from the forties. 
A marvellous set using blank musical notation paper. 
You should beg, borrow or possibly steal a copy of his fifties classic, The Passport. 
We love the graph paper architect series too. 
The benefit of the exhibition is, of course, a gleaming new book, Illuminations, with some pieces that are less familiar, or shown in colour for the first time. 
Here’s Twenty Americans.
3 liberties.
And one of the famous New Yorker pieces. 
And on a festive note... 
We’re not going to attempt to point out Steinberg’s influence on countless designer’s and illustrators, that’s probably pretty obvious - what’s amazing is that some of these drawings are sixty years old. It really doesn’t get any better.
Saul Steinberg: illuminations is at The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London until 15 february 2009. Abe.books watch: there’s quite a bit there but if you want the special edition of The Passport inscribed to Paul Rand you’ll need about $2,500 (!) But you can get catalogues of the Whitney Show from the late seventies for as little as $7. Bargain.
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