IRVIN UNGAR
ABOUT
Irvin Ungar is the world’s foremost expert and collector of the art of Arthur Szyk. His authority on Szyk’s life and work is internationally recognized. Ungar has curated and consulted on numerous Szyk exhibitions at major institutions including: the Library of Congress; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Spertus Museum, Chicago; the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Palace of the Legion of Honor). He is the author of Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk and the curator of the traveling exhibition program of The Arthur Szyk Society. Ungar is also the CEO of Historicana, which co-produced the documentary film “Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art” and published the new edition of The Szyk Haggadah.
INTERVIEWS
“The Almost-Forgotten Jewish Artist Who Propagandized Against Hitler” by Steven Heller
The Atlantic, May 29, 2014
The Work of Arthur Szyk
Video interview with Irvin Ungar by Facing History and Ourselves,* 2012 Length 5:46
“Illuminating Arthur Szyk: An Interview with Irvin Ungar” by Steven Heller
AIGA, November 24, 2010
* Facing History and Ourselves is a non-profit educational organization that helps students worldwide make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives. The organization often looks to the life and work of Arthur Szyk for rich curricular opportunities in the study of World War II and the Holocaust.