This collection has three color lithograph prints from Arthur Szyk's Visual History of Nations series. The nations included in the prints are the United States, Canada, and France. The Visual History of Nations series was commissioned by the Canadian philatelist and entrepreneur Kasimir Bileski in 1945. This series was meant to ...
MoreThis collection has three color lithograph prints from Arthur Szyk's Visual History of Nations series. The nations included in the prints are the United States, Canada, and France. The Visual History of Nations series was commissioned by the Canadian philatelist and entrepreneur Kasimir Bileski in 1945. This series was meant to include sixty visual histories of founding and member countries of the United Nations but only nine were completed prior to Szyk's death. Arthur Szyk, 1894-1951, was a Polish-Jewish artist and one of the leading political artists in the United States during World War II. He produced hundreds of anti-Axis cartoons and illustrations in aid of the Allied war effort. His cartoons, which included caricatures of Axis power leaders, appeared in popular magazines like Collier's and TIME. Some of his caricatures were compiled and published in The New Order (1941). Ink & Blood, another compilation of Szyk's cartoons, was published in 1946. Szyk illustrated numerous works as well, one of his best known being The Haggadah (1940) which tells the story of Passover and outlines the Passover rituals.
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