Jacob Epstein

English: Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-born Jewish sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict.

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  Sir Jacob Epstein, 1934. Photo: Carl Van Vechten

Works

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  Day and Night, carved for the London Electric Railway headquarters, were considered too shocking when they were unveiled

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  St Michael's Victory over the Devil (1958), in Coventry

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  Statue of Jan Smuts in Parliament Square, London

• Images of Jacob Epsteins work in English Wikipedia (some, if not all, under copyright and should not be uploaded to commons):
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