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List of sculptures by Jacob Epstein

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List of sculptures by Jacob Epstein
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This is a list of public sculptures by Jacob Epstein. This list only includes works held in public collections, such as museums and art galleries, in public spaces or in buildings and venues open to the public. It does not include works held only in private collections.

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Epstein, 1921, photo by George Charles Beresford

Throughout his career Epstein was a prolific sculptor of portrait heads and busts both of friends, family members, professional and amateur models but also of many of the most prominent public figures of his time, including Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw and Joseph Conrad.

Popular as his portrait work was, almost all of Epstein's early large-scale public commissions, such as the Ages of Man statues in London and the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Paris, along with his exhibition pieces, were met with outrage and controversy. As a consequence, he received few architectural commissions from the 1930s until the 1950s. Then, the rebuilding of Britain following the Second World War created a demand for the monumental figurative sculptures that Epstein excelled in and the last decade of his life became a period of intense activity with substantial commissions from cathedrals and public buildings. Several of his large exhibition works which had also provoked controversy, notably Jacob and the Angel and Adam, were initially acquired by the owners of amusement parks and freak-shows where they were displayed behind curtains and warning signs. The majority of those works did not enter any public collections or galleries until after Epstein's death in 1959.

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1900 to 1909

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1910 to 1914

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1915 to 1919

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1920 to 1924

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1925 to 1929

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1930 to 1934

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1935 to 1939

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1940 to 1944

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1945 to 1949

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1950 to 1954

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1955 to 1959

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