The Art of William Steig, Yale University Press, 2007. Catalogue From an Exhibition at the Jewish Museum

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Lavishly illus collection of 280 of the artists dwgs, examines every aspect of his work, many of them previously unpublished, … more Lavishly illus collection of 280 of the artists dwgs, examines every aspect of his work, many of them previously unpublished, and examines every aspect of his work, from the “Small Fry”cartoons, his earliest submissions to the New Yorker, and haunting symbolic drawings of the late 1930s and 1940s, to his later, bitingly funny cartoons and celebrated books for children. In the seventy-three years that Steig worked for the New Yorker, the magazine published over 120 of his covers and more than 1,600 of his drawings in a wide range of styles, including classic cartoons, psychologically fraught pen-and-ink renderings, and Picasso-esque representations. Catalogue an exhibition of the Jewish Museum NY. less