JACOB EPSTEIN

Biography

1880

Born in New York on 10th November.

1902-05

Studied at the Académie Julian, Paris. Visits to the Louvre fuelled his interest in ancient and primitive sculpture.

1905

Settled in Britain.

1907-08

First important commission for over life-size figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's headquarters in the Strand, London (destroyed in 1937 following the acquisition of the building by the Southern Rhodesian government).

1911

Became British citizen.

1912

Sculpted Oscar Wilde's tomb at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

1913-4

Produced 'The Rock Drill', which in his words 'symbolised the terrible Frankenstein's monster we have made ourselves into'.

1922

Created 'Rima', a memorial to the writer and naturalist W.H. Hudson in Hyde Park.

1958

Created the bronze work, 'St Michael and the Devil', at Coventry Cathedral.

1959

Died on 19th August.

Selected 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.