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Sir Jacob Epstein Biographie
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1880 |
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Born November 10 in New York of Polish-Jewish parentage
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1896 |
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Attended art classes at the Art Students League
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1899 |
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Attended night school where he began sculpting under George Grey Bernard
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1907 |
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Became a British citizen
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1912 - 1913 |
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Met Picasso, Brancusi, Modigliani in Paris
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1913 |
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Became a founding member of the London Group
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1913 |
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Had his first solo show at the Twenty-One Gallery, Adelphi, London
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1913 - 1916 |
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Returned to England and worked near Hastings
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1916 |
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Lived and worked in London for the rest of his life after 1916
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1927 |
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Briefly visited New York to attend his one-man show at the Ferragil Gallery
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1953 |
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The Arts Council honoured him with a retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery
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1959 |
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Died August 19 in London
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| Expositions sélectionnées |
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2008
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Characters: The People Behind the Portraits - Atkinson Gallery, Somerset (England)
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2008
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Against Nature: The hybrid forms of modern sculpture - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (England)
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2008
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Rodrigo Moynihan. Jacob Epstein - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY
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2007
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Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring - Camden Arts Centre, London (England)
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2007
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Modern Britain 1900-1960 - NGV National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, VIC
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2007
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The Poetry of Crisis, British Art 1933-1951 - Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries, London (England)
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2005
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Visual Dialogues - Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England)
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2005
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The Transformative Power of Art - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
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2005
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Christian Art - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
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2005
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Modigliani and Epstein - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England)
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2005
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Epstein and the Fertile Line - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) (solo)
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2004
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The Epstein Collection - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) (solo)
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2004
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Head to Head - Tate Modern, London (England)
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2004
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The Modern and the New - Ben Uri Gallery, London (England)
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2002
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The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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2001
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The Visitation by Jacob Epstein - Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England) (solo)
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1998
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Carving Mountains - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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1995
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46th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
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1994
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Sculptors' Drawings - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England)
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1988
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British art of the 20C - Richard Nagy, London (England)
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1987
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Jacob Epstein - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) (solo)
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1973
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Sculpture of Jacob Epstein - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
National Gallery of Modern Art - New Delhi, New Delhi, India
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England)
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England)
Tate Britain, London (England)
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (England)
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England)
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA
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| Littérature |
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1987
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Leeds City Art Galleries and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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1986
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Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein with a Complete Catalogue, Oxford
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1955
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Jacob Epstein, Epstein: An Autobiography, London
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