Jacob Epstein

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.

Selected Major Pieces

• 1907-8 over-size figures for a façade, The Strand, London - mutilated/destroyed
• 1911 Oscar Wilde Memorial - the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
• 1913-4 The Rock Drill (symbolising 'the terrible Frankenstein's monster we have made ourselves into')
• 1917 a marble Venus - Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
• 1919 a bronze Christ - Wheathampstead, England
• 1923 the W. H. Hudson Memorial Rima figure - Hyde Park, London
• 1928-9 Night and Day - 55 Broadway, St. James', London
• 1939 an enormous Adam in alabaster - Blackpool, England
• 1940 Jacob and the Angel - the Tate Gallery Collection (originally controversially "anatomical")
• 1947 Lazarus - New College, Oxford
• 1950 Madonna and Child - Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, London
• 1958 St Michael's Victory over the Devil - Coventry Cathedral
• 1959 Pan - Hyde Park, London