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Jacob (Sir) Epstein

Jacob (Sir) Epstein (1880 - 1959) was active/lived in New York / England, United Kingdom.  Jacob Epstein is known for Modernist sculpture-monumental portrait, figure, flower painting.

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Famous expressionist figurative sculptor Jacob Epstein was born of Russian and Polish parents in the United States on New York City's Lower East Side in 1880, but became an English citizen in 1907 after moving to London in 1905.  Epstein married Kathleen Garman in the 1920s.  He was knighted in 1954.

Epstein exhibited in the epoch-making Armory Show in 1913 in New York City. His fifteen-inch-high, smoothly-modeled bronze bust of Euphemia Lamb with sadly downcast eyenow in the collection of The Tate Gallery, London, England--was loaned to the Armory Show by the important collector John Quinn.  Epstein's piece was exhibited in Gallery A, devoted to American Sculpture and Decorative Art, with works by Andrew Dasburg, Chester Beach, Gaston Lachaise, Grace Mott Johnson, Mahonri Young and others.

Epstein sketched New York City as a teenager before studying, around 1900-1902, at the Art Students League there, at first during the day then at night, when he found e   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7224 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Jacob (Sir) Epstein


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Direct Carver, Hand Carving
  • Large Scale, Monumental Artwork
  • Poster Art, Poster Design
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Expatriate from USA or Canada
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
  • Allan & Susan Marion Collection
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • LIFE Magazine Featured Artist
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
  • Armory Show 1913, New York

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