Word: epsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andover's George Epstein was the lowest scorer, winning his seventh-place match with...
Brilliant Pillows. Finally in 1915, diffident Matthew Smith screwed up his courage, asked Jacob Epstein for an invitation to the London Group Exhibition where, at 36, he showed his first picture. Doubting Matthew ("I wanted to be sure I had something to say") waited ten more years before he had his first one-man show. By then his furnace reds, bonfire oranges and gas-jet blues had warmed not only Sculptor Epstein but a lot of British painters as well. When Portraitist Augustus John was asked, "Who are the three greatest British artists?" he answered, "Well, there's Matthew...
Even at his own tea table, Epstein is a lonely looking and rather frightening figure. Mountainous, with a fighter's set face and contemptuously protruding lower lip, he speaks in a forbidding rumble. Modern art, curiously enough, is one of his pet hates: "When I get discouraged I look at Picasso's stuff and then I feel better about what I'm doing." He himself once flirted with cubism, "but I abandoned the lady very early and since then she has prospered under other patronage." The semi-abstract sculptures of Henry Moore, with their pinheads and pierced...
...sculptor, Epstein thinks, must "embody the hopes and ideals of his people, like the great artists of Egypt and Greece and the men who built the cathedrals . . . What they did everybody could understand. Everybody must understand...
Since his wife's death three years ago, Epstein has been cared for by his daughter Esther and an old friend who acts as housekeeper. He rarely goes out, spends most of his time at work in his dusty, cluttered, cavernous studio. Last summer he made a two-month trip to the U.S., his first in 20 years. "I like it over there," he says, "but I like to live in England. They leave you alone and let you get on with your work...