The Jewish Museum received a significant gift of twenty-nine works from the Saul Steinberg Foundation in 2021 spanning the artist’s long and prolific career. Born in 1914 in Romania to second and third generation Russian Jewish parents, Steinberg was raised in what he called "the Turkish delight manner," in a world where Ottoman and western styles intermingled, and tradition and modernity intersected. At the same time, the artist grew up in a Romania dominated by antisemitic nationalism, an experience that would forever mark his life and art. Steinberg fled Nazi Europe and eventually immigrated to the United States, via the Dominican Republic, by obtaining a sponsorship letter from The New Yorker in 1942. Over the next six decades, he　created brilliant drawings, filled with humor, and endowed with a fantastical and absurdist streak, for the magazine. Steinberg relished his engagement with postwar America. His impressions are those of an immigrant, looking at the country from the outside, and commenting often with irony and always with great wit. "Being an immigrant made one into a child," Steinberg once said, "a child who talked funny and noticed things natives never did." From the time of his arrival in New York, he walked the streets of his adopted city with a freshness of vision that never grew jaded, as seen in his whimsical view of Lexington Avenue from 1983.