Jacob Epstein
Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), British sculptor, born in the US. His sculptures were expressionist in style, seeking to represent emotion rather than conventional form; as a result, many were controversial in their time. They include Night and Day (1928), Lazarus (New College, Oxford, 1949) and Christ in Majesty (Llandaff Cathedral, 1959). He also produced portrait busts of eminent people such as Einstein and Vaughan Williams.
“They are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or no discerning young man his fiancée, to see. Evening Standard and St lames Gazette on Epstein’s sculptures, 1908.”
