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Sculptor Jacob Epstein was born in Manhattan, but he has made his reputation in London, where he moved a generation ago. There he is known as the bad boy of the English art world. Justly famed for gaunt, incisive portrait heads, he has kept the public roaring at his huge, paleolithic figures, whose potent brutality has shocked the prissy, angered the academic and given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong...
Speeches by Wendell Berge, Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General, and Henry Epstein '16, Solicitor General for New York State, are featured in a discussion of "Anti-Trust Legislation and its Application to Trade Unions" to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in Langdell Hall at the Law School...
...generation Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has loved living in London and shocking the British. Last summer he shocked them again with Adam, a seven-foot ape man, chiseled out of a three-ton chunk of pink alabaster while Jacob Epstein listened to Ludwig van Beethoven for inspiration. Critics called it "a biologist's nightmare," but an Australian gold miner bought it for $35,000. As a side show at Blackpool on the Irish Sea, Adam grossed $250,000 from a million vacation gawkers...
...Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never done-made an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant...
IMPOSSIBLE was the one-word answer cabled by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Director John M. Gates of Steuben Glass got better answers from 27 other famed sculptors, painters, etchers. Result: a unique show that opened last week in the Steuben glass house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. On display went 27 crystal bowls, vases and urns engraved with designs by the 27 artists...