RECENT COVERAGE

“The Almost-Forgotten Jewish Artist Who Propagandized Against Hitler” by Steven Heller
The Atlantic, May 29, 2014

“‘Holocaust’ Haggadah’s Cynical Illustrations Still Bite” by Renee Ghert-Zand
The Times of Israel, April 15, 2014

“The Most Beautiful Haggadah in the Room” by Joel Schechter
The Jewish Daily Forward, April 5, 2014 (online), April 18, 2014 (print)

“Arthur Szyk: beauty in fairy tale… and Stalin” by Caitlin Donohue
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 20, 2010

“Arthur Szyk’s Haggadah and Singapore’s Sunken Arab Treasure” by Eve M. Kahn
The New York Times, March 10, 2011

“Arthur Szyk: A New Exhibition of a Great Illuminator” by Richard Z. Chesnoff, The Huffington Post, June 11, 2010

“An Artist for All Seasons” by Mordechai Beck
The Jerusalem Report, January 18, 2010

“Berlin Art” by J.S. Marcus
Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2008

“A Caricaturist but No Funny Stuff Here” by Michael Kimmelman
The New York Times, September 8, 2008

HISTORIC COVERAGE

“It is generally accepted as a fact that Arthur Szyk is the most famous painter of miniatures in the world today; and it is usually claimed to be a fact, that he is the best painter of miniatures in the world today.” — Monthly newsletter of the Limited Editions Club, September 1947

“Of all the works produced by the present war, there is no one more certain to be alive two hundred years from now. Just as we turn back to Hogarth and Goya for the living images of their age, so our descendants will turn back to Arthur Szyk for the most graphic history of Hitler and Hirohito and Mussolini.” — Carl Van Doren, art critic, New York, 1942

“Szyk’s cartoons are so exquisitely detailed that they are closer to the art of the illuminator than to that of the cartoonist; so trenchant in their satire that they invite comparisons with the works of Hogarth and Daumier.” — Click magazine, New York, 1942

“When studying the beauty and the greatness of Arthur Szyk you will have sight of the inner world of the Artist. You will learn of his amazing knowledge of the history of nations, races and personalities, of his meticulous thoroughness, his nature and last, but not least, of the spirit which has animated his works.” — Victor Podoski, Consul General of Poland in Canada, 1940

“The Statute of Kalisz combines text with illustration quite as perfectly as any medieval manuscript. One does not know whether to admire more the wealth of imagery and magnificence of colour or the finely wrought lettering and the minute detail… one can only say that if one were making a representative collection of the greatest illuminated manuscripts ever executed (including the best of Persia), one would have to include Mr. Szyk’s work—and there would be no need to apologize for their presence.” —The Jewish Chronicle, London, 1933

“Szyk’s Statute places him in the same rank as the illuminators of the sixteenth century.” — P.R. Roland-Marcel, Administrator General, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1930