Jan Zamoyski's painting Little Maid, The Polish Museum of America, Chicago, USA

The subtle portrait of a girl holding a rooster was painted by Jan Zamoyski, a disciple of Tadeusz Pruszkowski at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts between 1923 and 1928 and founder of the painters’ Brotherhood of St. Luke. The painting was one of the more than 11,000 works of art, handicrafts and industrial products sent by the Polish government to the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Many of the works for the exhibition were commissioned from Polish artists specifically for the occasion. The Polish pavilion presented the cultural, scientific and technical achievements of the Second Polish Republic on its 20th anniversary.
The New York World’s Fair, entitled The World of Tomorrow, was opened in April 1939 by the US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. The event ended in 1940, and due to the ongoing World War II, items from the exhibition in the Polish pavilion could not return to the country. Many of the exhibits ended up in the Polish Museum of America (opened in 1935), greatly expanding its collection. The site of the museum is still the same historic building in North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, the largest cultural center of the Polish American community.

Projects of POLONIKA Institute
- 2018-2022 - Program PROTECTION - restoration of works by Polish artists from the collection of the Polish Museum of America
- 2022 - Program POPULARIZATION - animated film for childern from the series Polo and Nika "American dream"