The Art Collection
THE ORIGINAL ART COLLECTION CONTAINS MORE THAN 215 PRESENTATION WORKS AS WELL AS OVER 200 PREPARATORY WORKS (SKETCHES AND STUDIES).

Most are executed in Szyk’s signature miniaturist style. The vast majority of the presentation works are painted with watercolor and gouache or drawn with pen and ink on paper. The preparatory works — including sketchbooks — are predom­inantly pen, ink, and/or graphite on paper.

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David and Saul, Łódź, 1921

Pacte de la Societe des Nations [League of Nations]. Paris, 1931.

“In his dexterity, Szyk recalls a bygone age of monastic scribes slaving over parchment pages. [His works] are more intricate than Swiss watch works and sublimely obsessive.” ”

— Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic, New York Times, 2008

The Scribe. Paris, 1927.

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De Profundis. Cain, Where is Abel Thy Brother. New York, 1943.

“Arthur Szyk is a role model of the engaged artist…[who] represents the artist as witness…He rises to the level of prophecy—prophetic as to the Jewish future but, like the biblical prophets of old, carrying a powerful message for all humanity.”

— Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 2002

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Historic Poker Game. New York, 1941.

Samson in the Ghetto. – Battle of Warsaw Ghetto. New York, 1945.

“He was democracy’s weapon, a soldier in art, wielding pen and brush to render the face of racial hatred and social injustice, its horrid features intact for all to see.”

— Harry Katz, Head Curator of Prints and Graphics, Library of Congress, 2005

Thomas Jefferson’s Oath. I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God. New Canaan, 1951.

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