“Arthur Szyk is a major and irreplaceable contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society…Szyk’s intellect and rich cultural sensitivity—as a Jew, as a Pole, and as an American—gave him unique understanding of the causes, the unfolding historic process, and future impact of the political events of his day. Furthermore, no other twentieth-century artist made such information so attractive and legible to the broad viewing public. Arthur Szyk’s thirty-year artistic career stirringly visualized the themes of human rights, sovereignty, and democracy in the 20th century.

As such, [Irvin Ungar’s] holdings of Szyk’s beautiful and intelligent illuminations, and caricatures—clearly the world’s foremost collection—demand to be preserved intact and made publicly accessible for scholarly study, as well as aesthetic and intellectual enjoyment.”

— Maciej Siekierski, PhD and Curator of the East European Collection at the Hoover Institution