About the artist:

He designed the covers of Elie Wiesel’s first two books, “Night” and “The Accident,” and his illustrations appeared on hundreds of other book covers published by New American Library, Simon & Schuster, Dell Doubleday and Harper & Row, and on Columbia Records covers. Saul Lambert was born in the Bronx of Polish Jewish immigrants and attended Brooklyn College, where he studied art with Ad Reinhardt, Burgoyne Diller and Robert Wolfe. After graduation he moved to Israel where he worked on a kibbutz for two years. On his return to the U.S. he served in the Army and his artwork was displayed at Ft. Jackson, S.C., along with art by his fellow soldier and friend Jasper Johns. Lambert returned to New York after the Army, painted and wrote a pair of children’s books, “Mrs. Poggi’s Holiday” and “The Man that Drew Cats.” From 1962 to 1985 he lived in Princeton, N.J., where his career as an illustrator flourished. On his return to New York he concentrated on painting. His work has been shown in New Jersey and New York galleries, including Albert Shahinian Fine Arts in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. His paintings were also on long-term loan to the National Endowment for the Arts during the Clinton administration. His most recent show was at Gallery 225 on W. 14th St. in 2007.