Jacob Epstein - Selected Major Pieces

Selected Major Pieces

  • 1907–8 Ages of Man - British Medical Association headquarters, The Strand, London — mutilated/destroyed
  • 1911–12 Oscar Wilde Memorial — Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
  • 1913–4 The Rock Drill Bronze — the Tate Collection (symbolising 'the terrible Frankenstein's monster we have made ourselves into')
  • 1917 Venus marble — Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1919 Christ Bronze — Wheathampstead, England
  • 1924–5 W. H. Hudson Memorial, Rima — Hyde Park, London
  • 1928–9 Night and Day Portland Stone — 55 Broadway, St. James', London
  • 1933 Head of Albert Einstein Bronze — Honolulu Museum of Art
  • 1939 Adam Alabaster — Blackpool, England. Now residing in Harewood House, Leeds
  • 1940-1 Jacob and the Angel Alabaster — the Tate Collection (originally controversially "anatomical")
  • 1947-8 Lazarus Hoptonwood Stone — Now in chapel of New College, Oxford
  • 1950 Madonna and Child Bronze — Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, London
  • 1954 Social Consciousness — Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
  • 1956 Liverpool Resurgent — Lewis's Building, Liverpool
  • 1958 St Michael's Victory over the Devil Bronze — Coventry Cathedral
  • 1959 Rush of Green — Hyde Park, London

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