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Jacob Epstein was a pivotal member of the London avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century. As a collector, he increased the visibility of Indigenous arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Born to parents of Eastern European Jewish descent, Epstein studied painting and sculpture in New York and Paris before relocating ...
Jacob Epstein [also known as Sir Jacob Epstein] was born into an Orthodox Jewish family at 102 Hester Street, Lower East Side, New York City on 10 November 1880. He attended the Art Students League in New York in from 1893 to 1898, taking night classes in 1899.
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged ideas on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks.
A radical English art movement of the early twentieth century led by Percy Wyndham Lewis. Influenced by the Futurists, they favoured urban, industrial subjects and promoted a hard-edged, angular style. American-born Epstein studied art in Paris then settled in England in 1905. He was one of the first sculptors to take an interest in (so-called)...
Feb 19, 2016 · Jacob Epstein: Taylorism and Masculinity on the Eve of the Great War. The origins of Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill (1913) and its meanings have been historically confused by two historical coincidences: the date of execution is the same as that of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, his first ready made and the year 1913 is the last year before the Great War.
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) was an American-born sculptor who had moved to Europe in 1902, and taken British citizenship in 1911. Although Epstein was not officially a member of the Vorticists, not having signed the Vorticist Manifesto, the full-figure sculpture has also been hailed as the pinnacle of Vorticist art.
The American-born British sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, was one of the most important early pioneers of Modern British sculpture during the 1930s and 40s. Although he was also a successful portraitist, sculpting the portraits of eminent people such as Winston Churchill, TS Eliot and Albert Einstein, his real desire was to create serious and ...
