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...when Sculptor Epstein was 28, it was the 18 enormous nudes symbolizing the life of Man which he erected across the front of the British Medical Association building in the Strand...
Probably no sculptor in the world has infuriated a large public so long or so successfully as has Jacob Epstein. Ever since 1908, three years after he moved to London, the appearance of almost every new Epstein statue has been greeted by angry crowds, smears of paint, blasts from the Press, apoplectic roarings from the pulpit. Fortunately for Sculptor Epstein, there have also been moneyed collectors quick to realize the technical proficiency of the man, the great power of most of his work...
...spectacle to which he referred was an 11-ft., 7-ton statue of Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon, the following were elected officers for the ensuing year: president, Sol Roland Srole '36; first vice-president, Edgar Ivan Epstein '36; second vice-president, Milton Zelig Paisner '36; treasurer, Ernest Sherman '36; secretary, Joseph David Golden '37; publicity agent, Irving Greenblatt '36; Freshman representative, Martin David Schwartz '38; executive councillor, Charles Benjamin Feibleman...
...world Dolores got her start with stocky, tousle-haired Jacob Epstein for whom she posed for a long series of John Singer Sargent painted several por traits of her before he died. Many times she posed for Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, and Christopher Richard Wynne influenced by Futurism and the first to renounce it. Even snobbish Philip de Laszlo decided that Dolores was as important a figure as the princes, promoters and prelates to whom he normally devotes his easels...