Show I L Sc Creates Furore Abroad I Dy By NEA Sees ben Ice lee YORK Oct 12 Jacob acob NEW L Epstein born American-born stormy stonny petrel of the th European art v world orld will City be bl In In J a few te his days native nati ve to loNC New do York some I more stormy stonny I He lie left New York li ts 1902 1802 a pen pen- penniless penniless student He returns the most moot talked of sculptor In the thc world Epstein today stirs London Just Justas as ILS that other born American-born artist Whistler used to stir It tt thirty ears jears ears ago Today the British claim Epstein as a British sculptor Just as thirty years sears ago they claimed Whistler as a British painter and etcher And Just Justas as most of Whistlers Whistler's famous paint paint- paintings paintIngs paintings ings created storm among the tile critics so do Epstein's sculptures today tody AN A EAST SIDER Each had his sturdy detractors who could see no art In their works work'S and each cach has his equally stout defenders who acclaim their genius I Epstein was born In New Yorks York's East Side in 1880 his parents hav hay having haying ing emigrated from Poland His ills artistic talents luckily for him came to the notice of Mrs Hamil Hamilton I ton Flail Fish and ond she gave him his chance sending him to Paris There he studied at the Ecole des Beaux I Arts and at Jullens Jullen's Academy In 1913 literary men commis commissioned stoned Oscar g Wilde him ll in to Paris design r rIt It It a had h tomb m echoes h for I of or Eg art and for days the papers paper were ere full rull of the controversy about it In 1917 he made them sit up and take notice with his large lare figure of or Venus and in 1920 with his figure of Christ Last year car the London art world had Its annual scrap over o a monument monument ment mont which some admirers of ot the tise famous writer aller W. W V. V H. H Hudson com coin commissioned commissioned him to do Hudson had written a noted novel no Green Mansions Epstein was to take from this the charac charac- character ter er Rima and make a figure with ith birds The sculpture was to toIsa Isa be used for Jor a bathing pool for the th birds in Hyde Park London It created more more than a 0 storm It created one long howl His HI frIends called It a work of or genius Some of lila his enemies daubed it I with green paint one night when park police were not looking lookin I One M. M P P. who did not like thing asked Parliament to do some some- something thin thing about It some some-I HIGHEST HONOR HO OR Epstein has lias attained one of ot the hIghest honors that can come to a living iving artist Five of his sculptures have lave been purchased for the Tate Tale Gallery y the great Teat national gallery In n London for modem odem and contemporary contemporary art His show in New York will be bea beery a very ery large one It will rill contain many examples of his work which ha hale lave e been the subject of discussion us In n past London Londo shows and one work which has never neter been seen sects before and which has been finished especially for New York It IL Is un understood un- un understood to be a figure of a woman with her child Epstein will Ill be accompanied on his American visit by his Scotch I wife and Peggy Jean his flaxen flaxen- haired daughter flaxen I I I I I IJ I 13 U I f Jg 4 1 i S. S He lie went i from New Yorks York's frenzy fronzy Last East Side lo to world fame as an artist did Jacob Epstein The sculptor Is In the upper photo with his bronze bronic of Senegalese Below Epstein at work on Elms which stirred London |