Sculptor.

Biography

In the collection of Tate Britain

1880 Born in New York, the son of Russian and Polish parents

1896-99 Studied at the Art Students League, New York, and at night school.

1902-04 Studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts and Academie Julian, Paris.

1905 Came to live in London, becoming a British citizen in 1907.

1911-12 Worked in Paris, befriending Picasso, Modigliani and Brancusi.

1913 Founder member of The London Group.

Bibliography

1931 The Sculptor Speaks, Heinemann, London

1940 Jacob Epstein, Let There be Sculpture, Michael Joseph, London (revised as An Autobiography 1955)

1963 Buckle R., Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, London

1987 Evelyn Silber, Jacob Epstein: Catalogue Raisonne of his Sculpture, Phaidon, Oxford

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1913-14 Drawings and Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, Twenty-One Gallery, London

1917 The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein, Leicester Galleries, London

1920 Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, Leicester Galleries, London

1927 Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, Ferargil Gallery, New York

1932 Redfern Gallery, London

1935 Leicester Galleries, London

1939 Zwemmer's, Charing Cross Road London

1942 American-British Art Center, New York

1944 Leicester Galleries, London

1952 Epstein, Tate Gallery, London, organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain

1960 The Arts Council of Great Britain

1961 Memorial Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London

1965 Rye Art Gallery, Jacob Epstein: Painting and Sculpture

1968 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto

1973 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

1974-79 The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein, Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition

1980 Rebel Angel: Sculpture and Watercolours by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Tate Gallery, London

1986 A Sculptor's Drawings: Jacob Epstein, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

1898 Hebrew Institute, New York, showed paintings and drawings by ghetto artists

1914 Goupil Gallery, London, first exhibition of works by The London Group

1922 Seven English Modernists, The Sculptors Gallery, New York

Collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums; The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Baltimore Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; British Museum, London; Imperial War Museum, London; Tate Gallery, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington; and numerous other public and private collections worldwide

Public commissions

1907-08 Major commission of eighteen figures for the British Medical Association headquarters in the Strand, London.

1924 Rima, memorial to the writer W.H.Hudson, at Hyde Park, London

1928-29 Night and Day, for London Underground Transport Building, St. James'

1952 Madonna and Child, Cavendish Square, London

1953-54 Christ in Majesty, Llandaff Cathedral, Wales

1957-58 St. Michael and Lucifer, Coventry Cathedral.