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, Łódź and Cracow, from June 30-Dec. 30, 2005.

Born in 1894, in Łódź, 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 World War II: 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 artwork comes to Poland. Accompanying the exhibit will be Alexandra Szyk Bracie, the daughter of Arthur Szyk.

On June 30 at 5 p.m. 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.

Article used courtesy of the Arthur Szyk Society.
Szyk Exhibit Schedule
Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk

June 30-Aug. 12, 2005
Jewish Historical Institute Gallery
(opening reception June 30, hosted by the United States Embassy)
Dr. Feliks Tych, Director
3/5 Tłomackie St., Warsaw

Sept. 8-Oct. 3, 2005
Poznański Palace
(opening reception Sept. 8, hosted by the United States Embassy)
Ryszard Czubaczyński, Director
Łódź

Oct. 24-Dec. 31, 2005
Center for Jewish Culture
(opening reception Oct. 24)
Joachim Russek, Director
Cracow

The Justice Illuminated tour in Poland is being generously supported by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, the Robbins Family Philanthropic Fund, and the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C.