Rosenberg, Sam — Practical Joker First Edition of the Published Drawing

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Reproduction. 31 x 40.5cm. As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Reminiscent of Saul Steinberg. Sam Rosenberg was an editorial advisor for Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly and a friend of Caresse Crosby. Rosenberg contributed photography and drawings to the magazine, and Crosby included commentary from him in The Gossamer Bridge... Time Magazine, Jan. 1945: Caresse Crosby, svelte, mop-haired, onetime publisher of the recondite Black Sun Press in prewar Paris, hostess extraordinary at her Bowling Green, Va. home, Hampton Manor (designed by Thomas Jefferson), sponsor of Surrealist Salvador Dali, planned to open an exhibition of surrealist paintings in Washington by her latest "discovery": Sam Rosenberg, Office of Strategic Services photographer, who calls his work "organized doodling," takes much of his symbolism from his early life in a grocery store (his pictures are full of strings, ice tongs, meat hooks, boxes). .