"To Illuminate Beauty and Vilify Treachery"

The Mission of Arthur Szyk, Passing the Torch


Arthur Szyk, Artist.

"An artist cannot remain neutral in these times"
-- Arthur Szyk, 1934

Jewish World Review has This Piece [click to read] about an exhibition of the works of Arthur Szyk.

"He was a master of political art, a brilliant draftsman/artist whose evocative works had all the power of Goya's "The Execution" and Picasso's "Guernica." Above all he was the 20th century reviver of the medieval craft of the miniaturists and illuminators of sacred texts, a multi-patriot who devoted his enormous talents to the struggle for freedom and against political evil, an artist who so forcefully depicted the battle to defeat the Nazis and their Axis allies, that Eleanor Roosevelt declared him a "one man army against Hitler." -- Richard Z. Chesnoff