Saul Steinberg

Known for: The New Yorker covers; View of the World from 9th Avenue (1976)

Saul Steinberg contributed more than 90 covers and nearly 1,200 interior drawings to The New Yorker across a career spanning five decades, developing a graphic language of line and symbol so distinctive that it influenced architecture, typography, and illustration worldwide. His View of the World from 9th Avenue (1976) cover — which depicts Manhattan in enormous detail and the rest of the world as a vague backdrop — became one of the most widely reproduced magazine covers in history. He was born in Romania and arrived in New York as a refugee in 1942.