NEW YORK.- Saul Steinberg was one of the most influential graphic artists of our time. "Steinberg: An Intimate View of his Art and World" will provide an unusually personal perspective on the output of this most private of men. It will reveal a selection of drawings, posters and other printed matter that the artist gave to his studio assistant, Anton van Dalen over a period of 30 years.

The exhibition will take place, February 9 - March 13, 2004 at the Visual Arts Museum, 209 East 23 Street, New York City. A reception will be held at the musuem, February 9, 6 -8pm.

Anton Van Dalen, a fine arts instructor at SVA, worked for Steinberg from 1969 until Steinberg’s death in 1999, archiving, documenting, photographing subject matter for the artist and generally keeping order in the studio. "Often," van Dalen recalls, being Steinberg’s studio assistant meant just being there "as a listening ear to his monologues, for which he was renowned, that spoke of his curiosity of the world and of his original critique of it."

Steinberg, escaping war and persecution in his native Romania, saw a good bit of the world on the long journey that ultimately brought him to the U.S. Not surprisingly, he is famous for his panoramas, which wryly comment on the worldview of the people from whose perspective they are drawn.