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| Szyk thru the Past |
New Discovery
SZYK [Pronounced Shick]: A Linguistically Daunting Surname
Your friends may tell you that they are not familiar with Arthur Szyk. They may wonder how to pronounce his name. It is Shick. But chances are that your friends will recognize at least a few of Szyk's brilliant works of art. Here are several samples, which are representative of his prodigious talent. Share these images with your friends and help The Society realize another one of our goals—that Americans of all ages and backgrounds will not only embrace Szyk and his art, but will know how to pronounce his linguistically daunting surname!
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 George Washington with His Soldiers
Washington and His Times, 1930
Those of you who collect Americana may have first discovered Szyk's patriotic series Washington and His Times hanging in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, NY. Who recalls that the U.S. Congress awarded Szyk the George Washington Bicentennial Medal? Or, that the paintings were exhibited in the Library of Congress and then the White House up to 1941?
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 Collier's Magazine Cover
February 27, 1943
If you are a World War II media buff, you might already reap righteous pleasure in Szyk's anti-Nazi caricatures, which appeared on the wartime covers of Collier's and Time, and generated widespread American interest in support of the war effort.
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 The Seder Table
The Haggadah, 1936
During the Jewish holiday of Passover, you may have participated in a seder, where you read from the Szyk Haggadah. The most reprinted of all 20th century haggadahs, The Times of London praised it as "one of the most beautiful works produced by the hand of man." |
 Dust jacket
Andersen's Fairy Tales, 1945
Of Szyk's many illustrated books, you might recognize his exotic illustrations in Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, the most reprinted illustrated edition. |
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