Adam Baumgold Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Saul Steinberg spanning a period from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. The show contains drawings, works on paper and mixed media constructions by one of the century's most enigmatic and inventive artists.

Included will be several works from Steinberg's memorable retrospective in 1978 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Among them are the autobiographical drawing, "Album," 1953 & 1968, replete with emblematic Steinberg imagery - a "fake" letter, photo, and passport, that was the cover of the Whitney catalog, and also "Dancing Couple," 1965, showing a precisely rendered man dancing with a stick-figured woman, as well as "Albergo Minerva," 1965, a bed engulfed by tight concentric circles and Steinberg's purposefully indecipherable calligraphy.

The exhibition will feature "Rodozachari Table," 1981, a large mixed media table assemblage that incorporates that tools of Steinberg's art: whittled wooden pencils, paint brushes, and drawing pads, as well as his speech balloons, rubber stamps, assorted themes, symbols, and obsessions, "his 'erotica' as he likes to call them." Harold Rosenberg said "They are extensions of himself...Once again, Steinberg presents a fabrication that stands for him but also hides him. The tables continue his autobiography in personal terms that betray no secrets." 1

Also included in this exhibition will be many early drawings from the 1950s and 1960s reproduced in the Steinberg books The New World, All in Line, The Passport, The Labyrinth, The Inspector, Le Masque, and the cover illustrations for Steinberg's book The Catalogue, and his exhibition Still Life and Architecture, as well as drawings that appeared in The New Yorker.

The gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-5:30 P.M. For additional information, please contact Adam Baumgold at (212) 861-7338.

1 Harold Rosenberg, "Saul Steinberg," Alfred A. Knopf