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Saul Steinberg ( June 15 , 1914 – May 12 , 1999 ) was a Romanian-American Cartoonist and Illustrator , best known for his work for '' The New Yorker '' magazine. Steinberg was born in Râmnicu Sărat , Romania . He studied philosophy for a year at the University Of Bucharest , then later enrolled at the Politecnico Di Milano , studying Architecture and graduating in 1940 . During his years in Milan he was actively involved in the satirical magazine "Bertoldo". Steinberg came to the United States in 1942, escaping the introduction of Anti-Semitic laws in Fascist Italy . Steinberg did 85 covers and 642 drawings for ''The New Yorker''. His most famous work is probably its March 29 , 1976 cover, an illustration known as "A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World" or "View of the World from 9th Avenue"; in that illustration, he depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers. The illustration is split in two, with the bottom half of the image showing Manhattan 's 9th Avenue , 10th Avenue , and the Hudson River (appropriately labeled), and the top half depicting the rest of the world. The rest of the United States is a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing "Jersey" , the names of seven cities and two states scattered among a few rocks for the U.S. beyond New Jersey, and the Pacific Ocean , perhaps half again as wide as the Hudson, separating the U.S. from three flattened land masses labeled China , Japan and Russia . The illustration inspired many similar works, including the poster for the 1984 Film '' Moscow On The Hudson ''; that movie poster led to a lawsuit, '' Steinberg V. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. '', 663 F. Supp. 706 ( S.D.N.Y. 1987 ), which held that Columbia Pictures violated the Copyright that Steinberg held on his work. EXTERNAL LINKS
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