Saul Steinberg: Drawings and Watercolors from the Hallmark Collection and The American Comic Strip

20 July–31 August 1983

Saul Steinberg, career cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, has 25 original drawings from the 1950s and 1960s on display at the Gallery. The drawings, which combine fine art complexity with cartoon whimsy, were originally purchased by the Hallmark Company for greeting card and calendar design. The accompanying exhibition, The American Comic Strip, featured 45 American cartoon strips, selected from the Jerome K. Muller Collection, dating from 1896 to present, and included selections from Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin, Beetle Bailey by Mort Walker, Betty Boop by Max Fleischer, Popeye by E. C. Segar, Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau, and Dick Tracy by Chester Gould. 

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