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The U.S. Embassy, the Arthur Szyk Society, and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, in cooperation with the Jewish Historical Institute, are pleased to announce the return of Arthur Szyk's works of art to Poland. The exhibit entitled: "Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk" will be on display in Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow, from June 30-December 30, 2005.
Born in 1894, in Lodz, Poland, Arthur Szyk is considered by scholars and art critics to have been the greatest 20th century illuminator working in the style of the 16th century miniaturist painters. Americans first knew and loved Arthur Szyk's illuminated manuscripts and political caricatures as they appeared on and between the covers of their most popular magazines during the Second World War: Time, Esquire, Collier's and advertisements for U.S. Steel and Coca Cola. His subjects were as diverse as his uniquely combined styles of renaissance illumination and political caricature: The Declaration of Independence, Nazism, The Passover Haggadah and Book of Esther, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the United Nations, American Cancer Society, and even coffee, steel and airlines.
Szyk left Poland in 1937. This year will mark the first time in 70 years that his art work comes to Poland. Accompanying the exhibit will be Alexandra Szyk Bracie, the daughter of Arthur Szyk.
On June 30 at 5:00PM Irvin Ungar, Curator of The Arthur Szyk Society will speak about the exhibition "Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk" at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
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