55 Broadway
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55 Broadway is a Grade I listed building on Broadway close to St James's Park in London. Upon completion, it was the tallest office block in London. In 1931, the building earned architect Charles Hold
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South Wind by Eric Gill
North Wind by Eric Gill
West Wind by Samuel Rabinovitch
Jacob Epstein
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Sir Jacob Epstein was an American and British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1910.
55 Broadway
…relief was carved by an avant-garde sculptor of the day. Halfway along the north and east facades are a matched pair of sculptures, Day and Night by Jacob Epstein. The modernism and graphic nakedness of these sculptures created public outrage on their unveiling. Newspapers started a campaign to have the statues…
1921 photograph by George Charles Beresford
A type of a laboring man from The Spirit of the Ghetto, 1902
Epstein's 1913 sculpture Rock Drill in its original form
Private Jacob Epstein