Education

Carnegie Institute Technical School, Arts Student League, Pratt Graphics Center, and with Edwin Dickenson, Howard Trafton, Frank Reilly, Ivan Olinsky, Robert Hale and Jurgen Fischer.

Some of the permanent collections

Smithsonian National Fine Art Collection, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy; The Brooklyn Museum, NY, Jewish Museum N.Y., Spertus Museum, Chicago Ill., Madison Art Museum, Madison, Wis; Fleming Museum, Vermont; Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wy; B'nai B'rith Museum, Wash, D.C.; The Museum of Israel, Jerusalem, The Museum of Haifa, the building of the Chief Rabbinate, Jerusalem; the Mayor of Jerusalem, T. Kollek; Efraim Katzir(Past president Israel; Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, Ambassador to the U.N., Yehuda Blum; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan; New Britain Museum of American Art; Georgia Museum of Art, Hofstra University, World Zionist Organization-American Section-Hertzl Institute, Museum Boston Public Library, Newark Public Library, New York Public Library, University of Arizona Art Museum, Kansas City Art Institute, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Emanuel Schary is listed in Who's Who in American Art, International Directory of Art, and Who's Who in World Jewry.

Articles

Hundreds of articles and magazine covers about Emanuel Schary and his art exist.   Here is a small sampling of articles I have collected.

• Jewish Journal, Cover, July 1985

• Sunshine Artist; Vol 4 No 3, Cover-March 1975.Article by Crusty Sy.

• The Record, Eric Keiger

• Fort Lauderdale News-Sun Sentinel Cover-March,1986

• Stained Glass Windows-Crescent Hill Synagogue, Rock Hill, NY. 

• Women's American ORT  

• The Miami Herald, Feb 1988

• Jewish News, April,1981: Valerie Zurblis

• Jewish Currents -cover-May 1981

• Akron Jewish News, August 1981

• Women's League Outlook magazine (cover) vol 52, no1, 1981

• Sun Sentinel, article by Dawn Kravitz

• Daily News, May 5, 1978

• Jewish Herald Nov 1981

• The Times-Herald Record, Sept 1993

• Jewish Week Examiner, Dec,1981

• Special Fundraiser-Lithograph for ORT, Armdi, UJA, and the Weizmann Institute of Science for Holocaust survivors, Memorial.

• The Jewish Community Center Of Palm Beaches: Update-Jan 1982 (cover)

• Washington Post Magazine, Sept 1982, Patricia Brennan

• Cleveland Jewish News, June 1981 and July 1982,

• Elmonitor, April 1981

• Sunday News, NY April 1970

• Exhibit - NYC to celebrate the peace pact between Egypt and Israel

• New York Times, May 1981, Penelope Painter

• New York Times, Sunday, Oct 1981, Barbara Delatiner

• Sun Reporter,1981, Marilyn Young

• Forward, June 1981, Susan Greenburg-Schneider

• Hadassah Magazine, April 1983

• The Temple Journal, Wash, DC 1981

• The Jewish Floridian, Dec 1981

• The Jewish Monthly Sept 1979

• Dayton Chronicle, June 1982

• Times Herald-Record - Sullivan County Neighbors, Sept 1993

Commissions

The New York World’s Fair Pavilion, Weitzman Institute of Science,1964- Large Painting, West Hempstead Jewish Community Center, N.Y, ORT, B’nai Brith, Numerous lithographs for charitable Organizations.

Exhibitions

Tel Aviv, Israel; Kean College, NJ; Brooklyn Museum, NY, Associated American Artists, NY: Kansas City Country Club Plaza, Mo; University of Michigan Artists and Craftsman, University of Miami, Florida; Nassau Community College, NY; Lenox Square Art Festival, Ga, Guild Gallery, N.Y.-1978-1980.

In addition to numerous recorded interviews, there are many articles, including Michael Patterson, master of Lithography, Sunday News-4/5/70, The Jewish Week 1978, the Jewish Monthly (1979), Hadassah magazine(1978), and Emanuel Schary, who is listed in Who’s Who in American art- 1976-1980, Who’s Who in the International Directory of Art-1974-1980, and Who’s Who in World Jewry(1980).

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A listing of planned Retrospectives in the USA 2025-2028.

Notes from Emanuel Schary’s archives and diary

1986-Paul Heidelberg

“Emanuel Schary has grown accustomed to being called “the Jewish Norman Rockwell.”

“Schary just smiles at the comparison. “I like Norman Rockwell’s work very much,” he said. “I think it took his death for people to appreciate him more. He used great techniques; I especially like some of his earlier work.”

Emanuel Schary

“I am a great believer in the Italian Renaissance School,” said Schary, who considers himself an illustrator and historical artist. “To me, they were the greats. The sad thing is that a lot of present-day artists aren’t willing to take the time to learn. That’s the problem with art-there are a lot of instant artists. There are a lot of amateurs who aren’t willing to pay their dues.”

For 29 years, Schary totally devoted himself to fine art. He has amassed an impressive list of credits and has been included in permanent collections at museums throughout the world.

A 30-minute documentary on Schary and his artwork, The Long Thin Line/The art of Emanuel Schary, filmed in 1983 by the American Jewish Committee/American Jewish Congress, was broadcasted on PBS stations around the country. The link to the Documentary will be available on this site.

Harry Rand, Curator of painting and sculpture at the National Museum of American Art, said, “I would compare (Schary’s) Israeli’s works to the British artist David Bromberg’s works that were done in Israel in the 20’s.” They are equally detailed and just as animated. Human interest never really goes out of fashion - it’s only styles that change.

Some collectors of Emanuel Schary Art-entertainers

Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve and Edie Gorme and Buddy Hackett.

“Schary says that more than one-third of his work is sold to non-Jewish people, “I try to make good work that is international.”

Schary followed his brother at the outbreak of WW2 and felt the obligation to join the military. Instead of studying art as planned, he was riding a tank as a member of the U.S. Army. After the war he spent 5 years studying at the Carnegie Institute of Technology of Fine Arts and the Arts Students League and the Pratt graphic center in NYC.

Schary as a Commercial art-worked on designs for Estee Lauder, Avon, Givenchy perfumes, numerous airlines and the World’s fair in NY-1964.

Schary said that from his earliest years as an artist, he has been obsessed with how he arranges people and objects in his artwork. Looking at his lithograph of the Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem, Schary points to the village in the background. “There is a purpose to every building, everything that is on the paper” he said.  “It all fits into the total composition. When I was young, I was very much interested in the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet and Degas.”

Paintings

In the late 60’s to 1985, Schary completed as many as 15 paintings/pastels/watercolors per year. After 1985, he completed 5 canvases annually. His main concentration were black and white and hand-colored lithographs, in small, numbered editions of 180-250 pieces. He used Bavarian limestone and a grease crayon to work on the stones. The images are transferred onto hand-made French paper. Master lithographers Burr Miller and his son, Steve of NYC assisted Schary in the process of transferring the image from stone to paper.

Trademark

Schary puts his own stamp on his lithographs and serigraphs. He often puts in his name, family members and friends in his artwork. Ex - the lithograph Nathan’s Coney Island Restaurant has a sign advertising orange, pineapple, grape and root beer drinks and Schary Punch. 

Emanuel Schary

“I have made my living from my artwork and I'm happy my work will live on after I am gone.  My art will be around” he said. 

My work is in collections and recognizable as a “Schary.”

“like a grizzly bear that claws a tree, I try to leave my mark in my own unique way.”

Jewish Journal - July 1985

Images leap off the canvas. The people are strikingly real: the scenes are all familiar.

Cover of Sunshine Artists-USA March 1975-vol 4 no.3

Artist, Emanuel Schary of Elmont, Long Island, N.Y. works on an ancient and laborious medium, stone lithography, Schary’s work, which reveals a realistic and delicate beauty, is exhibited in galleries, museums and private collections throughout the world.