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1880
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Born in New York on November 10
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1894
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Begins studying at the Art Student's League of New York
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Men with Mice and Birds or Fortune Telling with Rats
The Sweat Shop or Lunch in the Shop
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1901
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Illustrated Hutchins Hapgood's The Spirit of the
Ghetto
Draws self-portrait
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Self Portrait
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1902
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Moves to Paris
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1903
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Meets
Margaret
Dunlop
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1904
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Sculpts:
Baby Awake
Baby Asleep
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Baby Awake
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1905
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Moves to London
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Sculpts Mother and Child
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1906
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Sculpts Girl with a dove
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1907
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Marries Margaret Dunlop
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Commissioned to decorate the British Medical Association
Building in the Strand
Sculpts Romilly John
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1908
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Completes the decoration of the British Medical Association
Building
Sculpts:
Euphemia Lamb
Fountain Figure
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Study for Maternity (BMA building)
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1909
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Draws Nan Condron
Sculpts:
Mrs Ambrose McEvoy
Narcissus
Rom
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Head of Nan
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1910
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Acquires British citizenship on December 22
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Sculpts:
Crouching Sun Goddess
Lady Gregory
Marie Rankin
Maternity
Mrs Emily Chadbourne
One of the hundred pillars of the secret temple
Rom
Sun God
The Flame of Life
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1912
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Completes the tomb of Oscar Wilde
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Study for the Tomb of Oscar Wilde
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1913
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Has first one man exhibition at the Twenty-One Gallery
Begins work on Rock Drill
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1916
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Moves to 23 Guildford Street, London
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Exhibits Rock Drill
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1917
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Conscripted as a private in the Jewish 38th Battalion of the
Royal Fusiliers
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Has first exhibition at the Leicester Galleries
Fails to gain a commission as an official war artist
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1918
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Daughter
Peggy Jean Epstein born
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1920
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Exhibits Risen Christ
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The Risen Christ or Noli me Tangere (Touch me Not)
Hands of the Risen Christ
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1921
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Meets
Kathleen
Garman
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First Portrait of Kathleen
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1922
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Commissioned to create the W.H Hudson Memorial
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1924
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Son
Theodore
Garman born
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Rejected as a candidate for the Chair of Sculpture at the Royal
College of Art
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1925
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Completes the Hudson Memorial
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1926
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Exhibits Visitation
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1927
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Daughter
Kitty
Garman born
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Exhibits Madonna and Child
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Portrait of Kitty
First Portrait of Kitty with curls
Heads of New York Madonna and Child
Kitty II
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1928
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Moves to 18 Hyde Park Gate, Knightsbridge
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Commissioned to carve Day and Night on the London Underground
Electric Railways headquarters
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1929
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Daughter
Esther
Garman born
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3rd Portrait of Esther with Flower
First portrait of Esther with long hair
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1931
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Exhibits Genesis
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1932
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Exhibits Old Testament watercolours
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1933
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Paints almost a hundred watercolours of Epping Forest
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Autumn Landscape, Epping Forest
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1934
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Son
Jackie
Epstein born
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Begins carving Ecce Homo
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1935
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Ecce Homo attacked by the Catholic press
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1936
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Begins carving Consummatum Est
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1937
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British Medical Association statues are mutilated
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1938
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Receives an honorary degree from Aberdeen University
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1939
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Exhibits Adam
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Figure Study Male Nude Adam
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1942
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Exhibits Jacob and the Angel
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1945
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Exhibits Lucifer, which is rejected as a gift by the Tate and
the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
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1947
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Margaret Epstein dies
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1949
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Commissioned to create Youth Advancing for the Festival of
Britain
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1950
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Commissioned to create Madonna and Child for the Convent of the
Holy Child Jesus in London
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1951
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Exhibits Lazarus
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1953
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Receives an honorary doctorate from Oxford University
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Refuses an offer of membership to the Royal Society of British
Sculptors
Commissioned to create Christ in Majesty for Llandaff Cathedral
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1954
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Receives a knighthood
Son Theodore Garman dies
Daughter Esther Garman dies
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Begins Liverpool Resurgent for the John Lewis department store
in Liverpool
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1955
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Marries Kathleen Garman
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Commissioned to create:
The Trade Union Congress War memorial in London
St Michael and the Devil for Coventry Cathedral
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1956
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Liverpool Resurgent is unveiled
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1957
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Christ in Majesty is unveiled
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1958
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The TUC War Memorial is unveiled
Begins the Bowater House Group
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1959
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Dies of a heart attack on August 19 at 18 Hyde Park Gate and is
buried in Putney Vale Cemetery after a memorial service at St
Paul's Cathedral
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Completes the Bowater House Group on the day of his death
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