Jacob Epstein

Jacob Epstein, photographer Carl van Vechten , May 28, 1934

"Day and Night"

Bronze statue of Saint Michael in Coventry

Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (born November 10, 1880 in New York , † August 19, 1959 in London ) was an American-British sculptor and draftsman .

He was born in New York to Jewish Russian-Polish parents. After studying at the All Students League in New York from 1894 to 1902 and at the Académie Julian and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , he lived in England from 1905 and took British citizenship in 1910. In 1954 he got the knight title. In 1955 he was elected as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Factory selection

• 1907/08: Ages of Man [1] - London , The Strand , 18 facade sculptures for the British Medical Association building , damaged / destroyed
• 1911: Tomb for Oscar Wilde , Paris, Père-Lachaise cemetery
• 1913: Flenite Relief , Leeds, Henry Moore Institute [2]
• 1913/14: The Rock Drill [3] ,
• 1917: Venus , Marble, Connecticut , New Haven Yale University Yale Center for British Art
• 1919: Risen Christ , bronze, England , Wheathampstead
• 1923: WH Hudson Memorial, Rima [4] , London, Hyde Park
• 1928/29: Day and Night , London, administration building 55 Broadway of the London Underground above St. James's Park station
• 1929: Genesis , marble, England, Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery
• from 1934 Ecce Homo , Subiaco marble, England, Coventry Cathedral
• 1936: Consummatum Est (It Is Finished), Alabaster, Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland
• 1939: Adam , Alabaster, England, Leeds, Harewood House
• 1940: Jacob and the Angel [5] , the Tate Gallery Collection
• 1947: Lazarus , Oxford , New College
• 1950: Madonna and Child [6] , London, Convent of the Holy Child Jesus
• 1954: Social Consciousness [7] , Philadelphia , Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 1958: St Michael's Victory over the Devil , bronze, Birmingham , Coventry Cathedral
• 1959: Rush of Green [8] , London, Hyde Park

Jacob Epstein created numerous portrait busts, including those of the following personalities (selection):

• 1924: Joseph Conrad , bronze, England, Canterbury , Museum of Canterbury
• 1928: Paul Robeson , New York City , Museum of Modern Art
• 1933: Albert Einstein , Honolulu , Honolulu Academy of Arts
• 1934: George Bernard Shaw
• 1938: Rabbi Dr. S. Wise
• 1938: Young Paul Robeson
• 1945: Yehudi Menuhin
• 1946: Winston Churchill
• 1957: William Blake , England, Westminster Abbey
• 1909: Oscar Wilde
• ???: Jawaharlal Nehru
• ???: Rabindranath Tagore

Autobiography

• 1940: "Let There Be Sculpture"

literature

• Richard Cork: "Jacob Epstein" London 1999
• June Rose: Demons and Angels: A Life of Jacob Epstein , London 2002
• Evelyn Silber: The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein. With A Complete Catalog , Oxford 1986
• Jane F. Babson: The Epsteins: A Family Album , London 1984
• Terry Friedman: Epstein's Rima. 'The Hyde Park Atrocity'. Creation and Controversy , Leeds City Art Gallery 1988
• Stephen Gardiner: Epstein: Artist Against The Establishment , London 1992
• Raquel Gilboa: Walt Whitman's 'Comradeship'. Epstein's Drawings of The Calamus Lovers , Walsall 2005
• Raquel Gilboa, ... And There Was Sculpture; Epstein's Formative Years (1880–1930), London, 2009
• Gilboa Raquel, ... Unto heaven will I ascend; Jacob Epstein's Inspired Years (1930–1959) London, 2013
• Raquel Gilboa, Epstein and 'Adam' Revisited, The British Art Journal, Winter 2004, Vol.5, No.3, pp.73-79
• Raquel Gilboa, Jacob Epstein's model Meum: Unpublished drawings, The Burlington Magazine, CXVII, 837-380
• Moysheh Oyved: The Two Jacobs. An Impression of Jacob Epstein , in: Quest, Vol.18, No. 1-4, 1927, p. 405-410

Web links

Commons : Jacob Epstein  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.theo-zimmerman.freeserve.co.uk/epstein.htm
• http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/index2.asp?sec=2&id=2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Honorary Members: Jacob Epstein. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 10, 2019 .