Arthur Szyk
Brings 'em Back Alive
An Arthur Szyk (pronounced Schick) show at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan is worth the trip. If you love satiric art that blasts a missile right into the heart of the subject every time, he’s your boy. A Polish refugee from the Nazis, he kept up his art campaign through the war from the US. His work has the most remarkable detail, which I needed to shoot these pix of in order to really see. It is graphite, inks, watercolor and perhaps gouache. Fighting fascists and Nazis is suddenly a thing we must remember was a part of life 80 years ago. For practical reasons!
I hope he will inspire you as much as he did me.
Can’t wait to use this for a post-mid-term cartoon!
Map-Maker (detail). Hitler didn’t have a Sharpie.
Detail of a Collier’s cover.
I have a special love for the drawings. As always.
Bari Weiss is on dreck for tomorrow! For a (cheap) paid sub.
Remember, dear would-be illustrators, all this was drawn with imagination and a hand. No AI needed at all. Watch and learn how to use your brain! Thank you, mister Brodner!
My introduction to Mr. Szyk was his illustrations to Andersen’s fairy tales, published by Grosset & Dunlap. Beautiful and frightening. I still have the book.