Peter Saul

Born 1934, San Francisco. Lives and works in Germantown, New York.

 
 

About

A forerunner of Pop Art, Peter Saul has influenced generations of artists from the 1960s to the present with his caustic style and timely political and cultural satire. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993 and received the Artists’ Legacy Foundation Award in 2008 and the Francis J. Greenburger Award in 2013. He was elected to the American Academy of Art and Letters in 2010.

Saul’s works are included in major collections around the world including the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.