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7 unusual facts about Jacob Epstein


Don Potter

As well as wood carving, Potter started to work in stone as well and met Jacob Epstein (who had studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris).

Doris Keane

She was a favorite subject for artists of the day, among them the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the portraitist De Laszlo.

Embassy of Zimbabwe, London

The building was designed by architect Charles Holden in 1907–08 as the headquarters of the British Medical Association and featured a series of sculptures by Jacob Epstein representing the development of science and the Ages of Man, his first major commission in London.

Frank Brenchley

In 1986 he presented his collection of first editions and papers T. S. Eliot to Merton College Library and also presented a bust of Eliot by Jacob Epstein wnich has been placed in the foyer of the new lecture theatre named after the poet.

Glyn Simon

As the Dean of Llandaff, Simon was largely responsible for the reconstruction of the war-damaged nave of the cathedral, commissioning Epstein's Majestas or statue of Christ in Majesty.

Muriel Lester

This second cottage had previously been occupied by Sir Jacob Epstein.

Rima

The Hudson Memorial in London's Hyde Park, created in 1925, has a statue of Rima the Bird Girl sculpted by Jacob Epstein.


1951 in art

Sculptures: Youth Advancing by Jacob Epstein; Reclining Figure by Henry Moore; Contrapuntal Forms and Turning Forms by Barbara Hepworth; The Islanders by Siegfried Charoux; and Sunbathers by Peter Peri.

Adolph Lewisohn

He donated a significant portion of his art collection to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, including “The Awakening” by Maurice Sterne, "Selina" by Jacob Epstein, and “Eve and the Apple,” by Kaj Neilsen.

Bernard van Dieren

They also relied on financial support from a group of admirers and friends, which included notable personalities such as Jacob Epstein, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Augustus John, Philip Heseltine (the composer Peter Warlock) and Cecil Gray.

Nandalal Bose

He had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture; a circle that already included Okakura Kakuzō, William Rothenstein, Yokoyama Taikan, Christiana Herringham, Laurence Binyon, Abanindranath Tagore, and the seminal London Modernist sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein.

Southampton City Art Gallery

Highlights of the permanent collection include a 14th-century altarpiece by Allegretto Nuzi; the Perseus series by Burne-Jones; paintings by the Camden Town Group; sculpture by Jacob Epstein, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Henri Gaudier Brzeska, Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg; and Richard Long photographs.

St. James's Park tube station

The station was then rebuilt again between 1927 and 1929 as part of the construction of 55 Broadway the company's new headquarters building designed by Charles Holden and featuring statues and carved stone panels including ones by Sir Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, and Henry Moore.

Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross

Between 1951 and 1976, Sir William Keswick, who owned the Glenkiln estate, bought and arranged works by Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, and Auguste Rodin, creating the world's first collection of sculpture in a landscape setting, Glenkiln Sculpture Park.

Wynne Godley

In 1955 he married Kitty Epstein, daughter of Jacob Epstein the sculptor, who used his head as the model for his statue of St Michael at the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral.


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