"With Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season," 1952

Summary

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), a Romanian-born US immigrant, had a multifaceted artistic career, exhibiting his works in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. He is best remembered for his humorous, whimsical line drawings created for the New Yorker magazine over more than six decades beginning in the 1940s. Steinberg was equally adept at commercial art, producing advertisements and designing textiles and Christmas cards.

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), a Romanian-born US immigrant, had a multifaceted artistic career, exhibiting his works in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. He is best remembered for his humorous, whimsical line drawings created for the New Yorker magazine over more than six decades beginning in the 1940s. Steinberg was equally adept at commercial art, producing advertisements and designing textiles and Christmas cards.

Artifact

Christmas card

Date Made

1952

Collection Title

Greeting Card Collection 

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.9.1.3581

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Dorothy Guimaraes.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gilding (Technique)
Printing (Process)

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 7.125 in

Width: 5.875 in

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