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	Jacob Epstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 - 19 August 1959) was an American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in England, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict.
		Epstein lived in a long-term relationship with Kathleen Garman, whom he married sometime after their daughter's birth in 1926.
		Epstein's Day and Night (1928) in Portland stone, were considered too shocking when they were unveiled - a fairly typical response to his public sculptures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacob_Epstein (709 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Jacob Epstein (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Jacob Epstein, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
		In revolt against the ornate and the pretty in art, Epstein produced bold, often harsh and massive forms in stone or bronze that were the subjects of frequent controversy.
		Some of Epstein's best-known work is in bronze portraiture, executed with roughly textured surfaces.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/Epstein.html (260 words)

	Jacob Epstein -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Epstein's parents were Polish (An exile who flees for safety) refugees living in (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York's (additional info and facts about Lower East Side) Lower East Side.
		The Garman Ryan Collection, including several works by Epstein, was donated to the people of (additional info and facts about Walsall) Walsall, (A division of the United Kingdom) England, by Lady Kathleen Garman, in 1973, and is on display in (additional info and facts about Walsall Art Gallery) Walsall Art Gallery.
		In London, Epstein involved himself with a (A native or inhabitant of Bohemia in the Czech Republic) bohemian and artistic crowd.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Ja/Jacob_Epstein.htm (1104 words)

	Jacob Epstein sculpture
		Sir Jacob Epstein [1880-1959] was born in the USA, later moving to London and became the best known UK sculptor during the first half of the 20th century.
		Jacob Epstein produced many well known public sculptures during his lifetime and is represented in all the major public collections throughout the world, including MOMA [NY] and Tate Gallery [London].
		He produced many innovative sculptures during the early part of his career, but is perhaps best known for his heads and figures where he was able to get under the skin of his models and depict their character and soul in a way no other sculptor has managed to achieve.
	www.keithchapman.homestead.com /page4.html (347 words)

	Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That sculpture, called "Jacob and the Angel," is in the Tate Modern Gallery in London, and shows Jacob and the stranger with whom he wrestles locked in a tight embrace, with Jacob at the point of near collapse.
		Here in the change of the name of Jacob to Israel, from one man to a whole nation, is a hint of the depth of change that is expected of all of us who venture into the Christian life.
		Epstein's Jacob is both locked in the struggle with the stranger, and yet is also, in a way, supported by him.
	www.sjc-den.org /worship/8-4-2002.html (1604 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jacob Epstein
		Jacob Epstein photographed by Carl Van Vechten, May 28, 1934 From the collection of the Library of Congress and in the public domain: http://memory.
		Kathleen Kitty Garman (born 1926), also known as Kathleen Epstein, is the daughter of Kathleen Garman and Jacob Epstein, who married some time after her birth.
		St Michaels Victory over the Devil, a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein Photo by sannse, 28th August 2003 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jacob-Epstein (2120 words)

	Jacob Epstein - Paul Robeson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Jacob Epstein was born in New York and studied drawing while working in a bronze foundry.
		During this time visits to the Louvre aroused his interest in ancient and primitive sculpture which was a continuing influence on his work.
		During the 1920s most were not commissioned; they were friends, casual acquaintances and people stopped in the street and asked if they were willing to come to the studio.
	www.iniva.org /harlem/jacob.html (168 words)

	Sir Jacob Epstein English Modern London Artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jacob Epstein was born in New York City in 1880 to a Jewish family that had immigrated to America from Eastern Europe.
		Epstein had a distinguished career in England; he was knighted in 1956 and given honorary doctorates from Oxford and Aberdeen.
		Epstein was a sculptor of course as well as a painter and a draughtsman.
	www.geneshapiro.com /artists/epstein/epstbio.html (346 words)

	Sir Jacob Epstein - New Light Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		August 19, 1959, was an American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in England, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks may appropriately depict.
		Epstein lived in a long-term relationship with Kathleen Garman, whom he married some time after their daughter’s birth in 1926.
		London was not ready for Epstein’s first major commission—18 large nude sculptures made in 1907 for the outside walls of Charles Holden’s building on the Strand (now Zimbabwe House).
	www.newlightgallery.com /epstein_bio.htm (482 words)

	Sir Jacob Epstein -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Epstein's early ambition was to be a painter, and he spent his adolescence sketching the teeming ghetto life of New York City, showing even then the obsession…
		Incidents in the life of a slave girl; Jacobs, Harriet A. Electronic edition of Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet A. Jacobs, featuring a biographical sketch of Linda Brent describing her life in slavery.
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9032830?tocId=9032830 (666 words)

	Philadelphia Department of Public Property
		With his work "Social Consciousness," Sir Jacob Epstein gave Philadelphia his vision of the pain endemic to human affairs, and the compassion and sympathy necessary to console those in pain.
		Jacob Epstein's work had been the subject of controversy for his entire career.
		Epstein was born in New York, and he moved to London as a young man. He held a particular interest in images of fertility and maternity.
	www.phila.gov /property/vp_art_social.html (184 words)

	Bolton Museums, Art gallery and Aquarium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The strengths of the collection are important works by Sir Jacob Epstein including The Slave Hold and a group of portrait busts, together with works by Moore, Hepworth, Paolozzi, Frink and Chadwick.
		Epstein was an American-born sculptor who settled in England in 1905 and became a British citizen in 1911.
		Early in his career, Epstein produced much controversial work, which received much public criticism, although it is now recognized as great art.
	www.boltonmuseums.org.uk /HTML/art_sculpture.asp (135 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Jacob Epstein, Sculptor, by Richard Buckle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		...The scandal which launched Epstein's career as an English sculptor -the episode of the "Strand Statues"-was one of those mildly humorous curiosities of Edwardian culture that are almost wholly devoid of intrinsic artistic interest...
		...Between Whistler and Kitaj, the principal beneficiary of this confusion of publicity with workaday artistic practice was the late Sir Jacob Epstein, of whom it can correctly be said, I think, that he was knighted precisely for having failed to be the kind of artist his admirers always assumed he was...
		...Epstein's forte, on the contrary, was a mode of psychological portraiture which permitted him an emotional and expressive amplitude utterly removed from the archaic allusions and constrictions of feeling that are so deadening in his monumental works...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V37I5P86-1.htm (1831 words)

	Whitworth Art Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was founded with a donation from Sir Joseph Whitworth.
		One of its most famous works is the marble sculpture Genesis (1929-1931) by Sir Jacob Epstein.
		On Saturday 26 April 2003, three paintings -- Van Gogh's The Fortification of Paris with Houses, Picasso's Poverty and Gauguin's Tahitian Landscape -- were stolen from the gallery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitworth_Art_Gallery (175 words)

	Jacob Epstein, Sir Biography / Biography of Jacob Epstein, Sir Biography
		The American-born English sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), known principally for his expressively modeled portrait busts, periodically returned to direct carving throughout his career, predominantly drawing on biblical themes.
		Born on the East Side of New York City of Jewish immigrant parents, Jacob Epstein was a pupil of the academic sculptor George Grey Barnard at the Art Students League.
		Barnard's influence was a formative one, and Epstein's later slightly attenuated figurative style was reminiscent of his teacher's.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jacob-epstein-sir (248 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Singletons look to gallery for love
		The gallery is organising an evening focusing on its romantic links - Kathleen Garman, the wife of the sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, was born locally - and a collection of art donated by Garman is on permanent exhibition at the gallery.
		The Garman Ryan collection, donated in 1973 by Epstein's wife and her friend the US sculptor Sally Ryan, consists of works by Epstein, Monet, Van Gogh and Braque.
		Epstein was born in New York city but studied with Rodin in Paris and worked chiefly in England.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/entertainment/newsid_1169000/1169955.stm (358 words)

	Auckland Art Gallery
		Epstein, who spent his youth in the East Side of New York, has always had great sympathy for the child, and in writing in his autobiography about his own daughter, Peggy Jean, he says.
		166 Epstein, An Autobiography.) One is made immediately aware of the expressiveness of a child's arms and how essential they are in the portrayal of this young boy.
		All the prints have been purchased with the exception of those by Schmidt-Rottluff which were presented to the Gallery by the executors of the late Dr. Rosa Schapire.
	www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz /quarterly/q1-6.asp (252 words)

	Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Epstein
		As part of the Tate Partnership, a large bronze sculpture of a woman by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) was displayed in the Abbot Hall entrance.
		Epstein was born in New York but after spending time in Paris, he settled in London in 1905.
		He is best known for the 18 statues he was commissioned to make for the British Medical Association building, which caused uproar and scandal after they were erected in 1908.
	www.abbothall.org.uk /exhibitions/tatesculpture2001.shtml (95 words)

	The Sunday Telegraph: The Arts: A buried treasure, in Walsall A grand new gallery in the Midlands celebrates the loves ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Sunday Telegraph: The Arts: A buried treasure, in Walsall A grand new gallery in the Midlands celebrates the loves and art of Sir Jacob Epstein.
		The Arts: A buried treasure, in Walsall A grand new gallery in the Midlands celebrates the loves and art of Sir Jacob Epstein.
		"I FEEL we are dealing with dreams," wrote Kathleen Garman, Sir Jacob Epstein's widow in 1973, "and are about to house them in a solid Midlands setting for posterity.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:24331099&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (259 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Epstein: An Autobiography, by Sir Jacob Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TO BEGIN with, this is no real autobiography but an overly generous selection-especially of articles pro or contra Epstein (mostly the latter) published in the British press between 1908 and...
		...We learn something about Epstein's early readings, his studies at the Art Students League in New York, then at the Academie Julian in Paris (where old Bouguereau fumed at "ce sauvage Americain"), his visits to the British Museum where he saw the Elgin Marbles, Greek sculpture, the Egyptian rooms, and the Polynesian and African collections...
		...It is only from other sources that we know about Epstein's early struggles in London, where he and his young wife (a Scottish girl nowhere mentioned in the book) lived in two bare rooms, with most of his income coming from what he made at night as a model in an art school...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V21I3P91-1.htm (1503 words)

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		Walsall, England, by Lady Kathleen Garman, in 1973, and is on display in Walsall Art Gallery.
		Liverpool are said to have named his nude male sculpture over the door of the John Lewis department store "Swinging Dick".
		London was not ready for Epstein's first major commission — 18 large nude sculptures made in 1907 for the outside walls of Charles Holden's building for the
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Jacob_Epstein (569 words)

	Amazon.com: Demons and Angels: A Life of Jacob Epstein: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although American-born Epstein was a brilliant and much sought-after portraitist, creating dramatic busts of luminaries such as Joseph Conrad and Albert Einstein, his radical stone sculptures of "angelic and demonic forces" were so controversial in England, his adopted home, that he "attracted more insults and brutal attacks" than any of his contemporaries.
		As spiritual as he was carnal, as influenced by Whitman and African art as by the Bible, Epstein, always short on funds but rich in the love of remarkable women, realized his artistic dreams only to see his masterpieces defaced and displayed as sideshow attractions.
		JACOB EPSTEIN'S CHILDHOOD in the Jewish ghetto of New York was a lonely and suffocating existence, yet the ghetto haunted his dreams.
	www.spinics.net /am/0786710004 (1069 words)

	Epstein, Sir Jacob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I am a byer of Epstein and would be very interested in the second portrait of Dolores.
		I am in possession of several drawings by Sir Jacob Epstein from 1957 and 1958.
		The Senior Keeper of Art for the Service is Alison J Carter who would be interested in receiving further information on the model Dolores for an article on her role as a fashion model.
	www.artguide.org /uk/AG.pl?Action=105934A (719 words)

	Let There Be Sculpture - Jacob Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their daughter, also named Kathleen, married painter Lucian Freud in 1948 and is mother of two of his daughters.Epstein was knighted in 1954.The Garman Ryan Collection, including several works by Epstein, was donated to the people of Walsall, England, by Lady Kathleen Garman, in 1973, and is on display in Walsall Art Gallery.
		Works condemned in his time as obscene and disgraceful today communicate thought and understanding.London was not ready for Epsteins first major commission — 18 large nude sculptures made in 1907 for the outside walls of Charles Holdens building for the British Medical Association on The Strand (now Zimbabwe House).
		Jacob J Climo And Maria G Cattell - Social Memory and History; Anthropological Perspectives.
	www.booksearchbyauthor.com /415196_jacob-epstein_1131796489lettherebesculpturewherecanifinddiscountbook.html (865 words)

	Alibris: Sir Jacob Epstein
		The sculptor speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold L. Haskell; a series of conversations on art.
		Jacob Epstein : retrospective exhibition of sculpture and drawings.
		Jacob Epstein, sculpture, watercolors and drawings from the collection of Edward P. Schinman : [exhibition] October 30-November 28, 1971, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables; December 6-24, 1971, Danenberg-Roman Galleries, New York.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Sir_Jacob_Epstein (202 words)

	Epstein, Jacob - ClaudesPlace Store
		Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) was a pioneer of modern sculpture in Britain.
		How I wish I was living in an age when man wanted to raise temples to man or God or the Devil.” Jacob Epstein was thirty when he wrote these impassioned words.
		This digital document, covering the life and work of Jacob Epstein, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale.
	www.claudesplace.com /r-1185/m-Books/b-1212/Store.aspx (203 words)

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