Arthur Szyk

Jewish, 1894–1951

Arthur Szyk was a Polish-born American Jewish artist known for his work as a book illustrator and political artist. He was born in Łódź, Poland, into a middle-class Jewish family, and identified as both a Pole and a Jew. Szyk lived and created primarily in France, Poland, the United Kingdom, and later the United States, where he settled permanently in 1940 and gained American citizenship in 1948.