Word: epsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AARON B. EPSTEIN...
...surface of a pool; in a dominant center position stands a roughly molded, magnificent bronze by Pablo Picasso, Shepherd Holding a Lamb, which proves that Picasso can be a lot more forceful in 3-D than in some of his two-dimensional painted abstractions. There is also Jacob Epstein's majestic, reposeful Madonna and Child, an anguished Horse by Italy's Marino Marini, and a skeletal abstraction, Double Standing Figure, by Britain's Henry Moore. Among the sculpture are evergreens, geraniums and winter jasmine...
Peevish old Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who gets more respectable as the years go by, was not surprised when a committee of distinguished fellow Britons unanimously selected him as the man best qualified to create a memorial to South Africa's late Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts. Said he: "I deserve...
Britain's fiery old Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who has caught his share of brickbats in the past 45 years, stepped up again to heave a few himself. Epstein's targets: the $32,000 Unknown Political Prisoner competition in London (TIME, March 23), and abstract sculpture in general. "Rot," growled Epstein, "abstract atrocities. The whole thing is bunk. One's like another, all empty and meaningless. They philosophize and talk, but it doesn't convince you. You can't take it seriously...
...Epstein's blast was only the most recent in a row that has been rumbling ever since Abstractionist Reg Butler's cagelike Prisoner won first prize in the competition and an infuriated visitor to the show crushed the winning model in his fists. (His punishment: ten months on probation and 10 guineas in costs.) Readers flooded the London press with outraged letters; critics wrote denunciations of Butler's work; students daubed one of his other sculptures with paint. And when word got around that Butler hoped his Prisoner would be erected on some such site...