Joseph Conrad Portrait Bust
- Title:
- Joseph Conrad Portrait Bust
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Epstein, Jacob (British sculptor and painter, 1880-1959)
- Date:
- 1924
- Location:
- Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- ID Number:
- artsdb_1808
- Accession Number:
- W84-20.6
- File Name:
- artsdb_1808.jpg
- Culture:
- British
- Work Type:
- portraits
busts - Materials/Techniques:
- bronze
- Subject:
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
- Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Frontal View
- Description:
- Bronze portrait bust of the author, Joseph Conrad, sculptor J. Epstein. Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall. This bronze is an abbreviation of a larger bust which includes the shoulders and half-chest that is in the Birmingham Museum in England. (See "Jacob Epstein" entry in Wikipedia).
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) was born in the lower East Side of New York City. He joined the Art Students League in 1900 studying sculpture and drawing and worked in a bronze foundry by day. On the encouragement of his teachers he moved to Paris in 1902 where he studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London after an altercation with a fellow student who was so jealous of Epstein’s entry for a prize competition he destroyed it, whereupon Epstein gave the man a beating and had to leave Paris. He made his career in England. Some of his most famous sculptures include this bust of Conrad, and one of Einstein, and larger works such as the Tomb of Oscar Wilde, and St. Michael’s Victory over the Devil on the new Coventry Cathedral. - Notes:
- Joseph Conrad (1857- 1924) was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire. He was a Polish novelist who learned to write in English. From 1874-94 Conrad was a sailor rising to the rank of Master. Some of his most famous novels are Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The Duel, Victory, The Shadow Line, and The Rover.
- Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.