Oral history interview with Saul Steinberg
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 34 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Steinberg, Saul
label: Interviewer
content: Glueck, Grace
topic: label: Occupation
content: Cartoonists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- History -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Caricatures and cartoons
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Steinberg, Saul
label: Interviewer
content: Glueck, Grace
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was a painter and cartoonist from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.steinb71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Saul Steinberg conducted by Grace Glueck for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Steinberg discusses his travels in Ethiopia and Kenya; early paintings in America; politics and art in the 1960s; pyramids and the masonic movement; his own mythology; painting and drawing techniques; and his writings.