Worldwide Acclaim

• “In his dexterity Szyk recalls a bygone age of monastic scribes slaving over parchment pages. [His] illustrations are more intricate than Swiss watch works and sublimely obsessive. Reproductions hardly do the original drawings justice.”

  — Michael Kimmelman
  The New York Times

• “Arthur Szyk’s drawings are evidence of an exceptional mastery of crafts and of artistic inspiration.”

  — Katja Widmann and Johannes Zechner
  Curators, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2008

• “To call Arthur Szyk the greatest illuminator since the sixteenth century is no flattery. It is the simple truth which becomes manifest to any person who studies his work with the care which it deserves.”

  — Cecil Roth
  Historian, London, 1940s

• “[Szyk] makes not only cartoons, but beautiful composed pictures which suggest, in their curiously decorative quality, the inspired illuminations of the early religious manuscripts.”

  — Thomas Craven
  Art Critic, New York, 1940s