This review of Saul Steinberg's exhibitions at the Morgan Library and the Museum of the City of New York describes "mysterious documents [that] appear often: sheets of impenetrable pseudo-writing punctuated with the featureless photographs, fictive seals and stamps, and incomprehensible signatures of nightmare bureaucracies." The Sackner holds one such documentary drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bonnie Clearwater, curator of the exhibition, contributed an essay relating the works and underlying themes of the work of Steinberg and Pettibon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Butor and Rosenberg wrote introductory essays to Steinberg's illustrations that feature viewers gazing at a cubist painting, photographs of people wearing Steinberg decorated paper bag masks, landscape, cityscapes, air mail motifs, cartoons with micrographic calligaphic markings, images involving music records, labyrinths, feigned ancient battles, pyramids, and bird-like people among others. Three hundred copies of the book were released with a signed lithograph; this copy is not part of that edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalogue. The Sackners bought Mary Baumeister's assemblage, "Literatur-E" at this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue was printed for the retrospective exhibition of Steinberg's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The art critic Harold Rosenberg described Saul Steinberg as "a writer of pictures, an architect of speech and sounds, a draftsman of philosopical reflections." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.