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Fairfield University DigitalCommons@Fairfield Ephemera In Real Times - Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights Fall 2023 Arthur Szyk - In Real Times - 7x10.5 Fairfield University Art Museum Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/arthurszyk-ephemera Recommended Citation Fairfield University Art Museum, "Arthur Szyk - In Real Times - 7x10.5" (2023). Ephemera. 54. https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/arthurszyk-ephemera/54 This item has been accepted for inclusion in DigitalCommons@Fairfield by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Fairfield. It is brought to you by DigitalCommons@Fairfield with permission from the rights-holder(s) and is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@fairfield.edu. ₁. Defenders of Warsaw London, 1939 Watercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper  2017.5.1.45₂. Narodowi Polskiemu, w Braterstwie Broni Naród Amerykański (The Polish Nation, the Brotherhood of American Arms) [King Władysław II Jagiełło (ca. 1352-1434)] New York, 1942 Watercolor and gouache on board  2017.5.1.99 King Władysław II Jagiełło (ca. 1352-1434), who ruled Poland between 1386-1434, belonged to the Jagiellonian dynasty that ruled over Poland and Lithuania until 1572, and initiated the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Szyk painted a portrait of the King for the series, “Brotherhood in Arms,” dedicated to the Polish nation. By portraying Jagiełło in 1943, Szyk allegorically pointed to the role of the Polish-Lithuanian union (14th-18th centuries) in resisting the Teutonic invasions as an inspiration for the contemporary Polish resistance against German influence. The King’s shield is inscribed in Polish with a quote from The Oath, a poem written in 1908 by Polish independence activist Maria Konopnicka (1842-1910) against the policies of the German Empire: “We shall not forsake the land we came from. We shall not let our speech be buried. We are the Polish nation, the Polish people. From the royal line of Piast.” At the King’s feet, an axe crushes a Nazi swastika, inscribed with the words “The people’s revenge, you will not escape!!!” In the background, Polish soldiers, embedded with the French and British Allied troops, are depicted going to war against Nazi Germany.

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