At age 9, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago until his family decided he was too young to be drawing nude models.
Both the original drawn designs and small models of the end products are shown here.
Steinberg began his career drawing live models and landscapes and later switched to "metaphysical still lifes".
The company has developed a program for drawing three-dimensional models of objects.
By the late 50's he was spending Sunday nights at the studio of the painter and educator Mercedes Matter, drawing models from life.
Doing this also enables them to draw or create models of the set based on their research of the time era.
The model line up is changed again, but still contains a mixture of photo and drawn models.
He started drawing and making models as a small child and began developing his own photographs when he was 10.
Probably this was a very informal grouping, perhaps meeting to draw nude models, and certainly to exchange artistic views.
(Hint: Draw models of the areas, then cut them out and compare.)