The rich and profound statements in Aronson's work cannot easily be categorized. As an immigrant artist of Jewish background, Aronson has borrowed from Christological, Jewish, mystical, and modernist motifs, placing himself in a humanistic tradition--but also, at times, in a controversial position. Though he was included in the 1967 volume Art and Tradition: The Jewish Artist in America by Emery Grossmann, Aronson's work cannot be narrowly defined as 'Jewish Art,' nor even as religious art in a traditional sense. Rather, it is a multifaceted, complex, and highly evocative body of work whose themes are equally personal and universal.

David Aronson: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture is a major monograph featuring work from 1946-2002 is a unique and sweeping retrospective. It reproduces and discusses his works done in encaustic, pastel, charcoal, mixed media, and bronze on a wide range of religious and personal subject matter. It also contains a lecture David Aronson delivered in 1967 at Boston University, "Real and Unreal: The Double Nature of Art." The interpretive essay by Dr. Asher Biemann of the University of Virginia places Aronson's work and biography in an historical, cultural, and intellectual context and comments on specific motifs in his work.