Szymon Bojko, Polish-Americans and Polish Artists in
Contemporary American Art.
The present study is intended to explore the state and scale of the contribution
made to American art by artists of Polish origin (Polish-Americans) and Polish artists permanently
residing in the United States. It is not a complete monograph since it lacks a prologue, that is,
portraits of the first Polish immigrants who practiced the fine arts in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries; many problems have been deliberately narrowed down or omitted. The facts,
events, and characters presented here basically cover the period between the 1920s and midseventies.
In the chapter entitled "Portraits," the discussion of the careers of individual
artists also includes notes on their most recent achievements which date from the early eighties. [...]
The first generation refers to those artists who were born in Polish territories
in the Prussian, Austrian or Russian partition zones. The second represents artists born on
American soil into families coming from Poland. The third encompasses the generation of American
artists whose parents belonged to the category of Americans of Polish origin. The next group,
namely immigrants as a result of the World War II, is composed of individuals who shared a similar
fate: exile, participation in battles on different fronts and within different armies,
prisoners-of-war and D.P. camps; there were more names in this group then those actually
included in "Portraits." Finally, numerous examples of artistic biographies of peace-time
immigrants emerged, covering a period up to the seventies. [...]
Introduction
Artists: Tamara de Łempicka, Zygmunt Menkes, Theodore Roszak, Stanisław Szukalski, Jack Tworkov,
Richard
Anuszkiewicz, Brian Buczak, Emily Pinkowski, Richard Stankiewicz, Stanley Twardowicz, Nell
Znamierowski, Joseph Jachna, James Juszczyk, Gerome Kamrowski, Terrence Karpowicz, Rita Kepner,
Bill Komoski, Dennis Kowal, Thomas Nozkowski, Pat Oleszko, Edward Paschke, Frank Piątek, Steve
Poleskie, Christine Rojek, Mel Someroski, Ted Victoria, Bronisław Bak, Anna Bialobroda, Ursula
von Rydingsvard, Julian Stanczak, Wojciech Fangor, Ryszard Horowitz, Tadeusz Łapinski, Tadeusz
Myslowski, Stanisław Zagorski.
CD-ROM version of book is available in The Archives of Polish Emigration.
POLISH ART IN EXILE - GALLERY
http://www.bu.umk.pl/Archiwum_Emigracji/Book.htm