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Polish Art Collections in America - Kolekcje Sztuki Polskiej w Ameryce
Pictures by Czesław Czapliński
Editor: Aleksandra Rudalska, Jessica Taylor-Kucia
Translator: Monika Myszkiewicz

Forward by:
- Ferdynand B. Ruszczyc (Director, National Museum in Warsaw)
- Prof. Marek Kwiatkowski (Director, Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw)
- Dr. Jerzy Huczkowski (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Antykwaryczna)
- Dr. Bogusław Winid (Deputy Chief of Mission, Polish Embassy, Washington)

"Over the past 25 years I have explored more than fifty collections in America featuring Polish paintings. Each of them is different but they are all equally valuable, whether large, comprising several hundred canvases worth millions of dollars, or small with no more than a dozen or so works." ~ Czesław Czapliński

There is a total of 23 collections.
The album contains five hundred full-page reproductions of the following masters:

Jankiel Adler Tadeusz & Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz Tadeusz Teodor Axentowicz Otto Axer Wladyslaw Bakalowicz Kaczor Stanislaw Batowski Zdzislaw Beksinski Boleslaw Biegas Olga Boznanska Olga Jozef Brandt Jozef Brodowski Krystyna Brzechwa Tadeusz Brzozowski Jozef Chelmonski Jan Cybis Zdzislaw Czermanski Zbigniew Dlubak Tadeusz Dominik Jerzy Duda-Gracz Eugeniusz Eibisch Stanislaw Eleszkiewicz Henryk Epstein Julian Falat Wojciech Fangor Stanislaw Fijalkowski Bernard Frydrysiak Eugeniusz Geppert Wojciech Gerson Stefan Gierowski Aleksander & Maksymilian Gierymski Artur Grottger Gustaw Gwozdecki Henryk Hayden Vlastimil Hofman Witold Kaczanowski Stanislaw Kamocki Eliasz Kanarek Rajmond Kanelba Tadeusz Kantor Alfons Karpinski Mane Katz Mojzesz Kisling Bohdan Kleczynski Aleksander Kobzdej Roman Kochanowski Wojciech Kopczynski

Juliusz & Wojciech Kossak Antoni Kowalski Roman Kramsztyk Otylia Kraszewska Emil Krcha Nikifor Krynicki Wlodzimierz Ksiazek Jan Lebenstein Wojciech Leder Wojciech Tamara de Lempicka Alfred Lenica Stanislaw Lentz Ludwik Lille Zbyslaw Marek Maciejewski Jacek & Rafal Malczewski Eugeniusz Markowski Witold Mars Jan Matejko Zygmunt Menkes Piotr Michalowski Kazimierz Mikulski Stanislaw Mlodozeniec Szymon Mondzain Henryk Musialowicz Mela Muter Artur Nacht-Samborski Maciej Nehring Cyprian Kamil Norwid Jerzy Nowosielski Rafal Olbinski Andrzej Orlinski Aleksander Orlowski Jozef Pankiewicz Teresa Pagowska Ignacy Pienkowski Michal Plonski Piotr Potworowski Zbigniew Pronaszko Barbara Przyluska Mieczyslaw de Rakowski Stanislaw Rodzinski

Jan Rosen Theodore J. Roszak Zygmunt Rozwadowski Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa Roman Rupniewski Ferdynand Ruszczyc Tadeusz Rybkowski Czeslaw Rzepinski Zygmunt Schretter Zygmunt Sidorowicz Henryk Siemiradzki Jacek Sienicki Jehudith Sobel Piotr Stachiewicz Jan Stanislawski Henryk Stazewski Zofia Stryjenska Mieczyslaw Strzelecki Jan, Adam & Tadeusz Styka January Suchodolski Jan Szancenbach Jozef Szermentowski Roman Szwojnicki Wladyslaw Slewinski Aleksander Swieszewski Jerzy Tchorzewski Wlodzimierz Terlikowski Wlodzimierz Tetmajer Feliks Topolski Irena & Wojciech Weiss Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski Ryszard Winiarski Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz Wincenty Wodzinowski Leon Wyczolkowski Michal Wywiorski Eugeniusz Zak Eugeniusz Waclaw Zawadowski Rajmund Ziemski Jakub Zucker Ignacy Zygmuntowicz

"Czesław Czapliński's album discloses to us treasures that have long been kept hidden. Accumulated over years, these collections have until now gladdened the eyes of the collectors and their close circles only. Thanks to the author's passion and persistent efforts we can feel almost like discoverers of terra incognita. At the same time we should be aware that we are experiencing a unique initiation by being ushered into the collectors' intimate worlds. Frequently tangled and knotty, the fortunes of people and institutions loom in the background of the collections. This publication has one more effect that cannot be overestimated: it changes the stereotypical image of a Pole in America, who no longer dreams of a better life on the other side of the Atlantic, but actually and beautifully lives one."
~ FERDYNAND B. RUSZCZYC, Director National Museum in Warsaw

"Czesław Czapliński traced painstakingly Polish art collections across the U.S.A. To the astonishment of many of his compatriots, he proved that works demonstrating outstanding value and greatly enhancing our awareness of Polish artistic heritage could be found overseas too. All credit to the author for that."
~ PROF. MAREK KWIATKOWSKI, Director Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw

"Czesław Czapliński created this album to promote the beautiful idea of collecting art. This fact has already been appreciated in his nomination for the 2006 Jerzy Dunin-Borkowski Award. This annual award commemorates the Hetman of Polish Collectors and has been presented since 2000 in a ceremony at the Collector's Museum in Krosniewice. Some of the laureates from outside Poland have been Jan Nowak-Jezioranski (posthumously), Tadeusz Kwiatkowski (posthumously), the Polish Military Collectors' Association in New York, Montresor Castle, France, the Polish Museum in Rappersvill, Switzerland, and Andrzej Ciechanowiecki."
~ DR. JERZY HUCZKOWSKI, Chairman of the Association of the Antique Dealers of Poland, Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Antykwaryczna and Polish Art & Antiques Magazine, and Chairman of the Jury of the Jerzy Dunin-Borkowski Award for Polish Collectors

Publishing House: Fundacja Dobrej Ksiazki, Warsaw 2007
Hardcover book measuring 13.5" x 9.5" x 1.625"
512 pages, Color Jacket, Index
Bilingual English/Polish Language Version

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