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Thousands of U. S. citizens claim an interest in the estate of a German-born surveyor named Jacob Baker who settled in Pennsylvania in 1765. Ruling version of the Baker saga is that Surveyor Baker, granted land in Philadelphia, leased it back for 100 years to the U. S. Government. Upon the land the Government built the Philadelphia Navy yards, post office, mint...
...primitive Africa have been turning up as curios in the homelands of the traders. Not until shortly after the turn of the Century, when the founders of modern art loudly proclaimed their independence, was the artistic merit of these mementos of the slave trade generally appreciated. Young modernists like Jacob Epstein, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, were profoundly affected by West African sculpture. Today an African mask or two is as necessary for the apartment of a young-man-about-Paris as lounging pajamas and a bottle of port...
...clock one morning John Jacob Astor III went furtively to work as assistant to the assistant marine superintendent of the International Mercantile Marine Co. in Manhattan. For three days he clerked quietly. Then newshawks discovered him, pestered until he glumly gave an interview. "I was," said he, "very glad to get this job." Whether his half-brother Vincent Astor, vice president and part owner of the company, was also glad, he did not know. He was working eight hours a day, six days a week, getting $25. He found that the job had to do with hiring and firing crews...
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...