Jacob Epstein Papers, 1912-1940.

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Jacob Epstein Papers, 1912-1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646346765

The Jacob Epstein Papers measure 3.5 linear feet and date from 1912 to 1940. contain the correspondence, invoices, photographs, clippings, exhibition catalogs, reprints, scrapbooks and sales materials of Jacob Epstein, Baltimore businessman and philanthropist. They document portions of Epstein's art collection donated to the Baltimore Museum of Art on his death. Most material dates from the 1920's. The Papers consist of two Series, Epstein Collection and Scrapbooks. Within the first series there are materials encompassing twenty nine paintings and sculptures in the Epstein Collection as well as some material created by BMA staff but related to the Epstein Collection. Note that not all works in the Epstein Collection are represented in the Jacob Epstein Papers. The files on each work of art are further arranged by item type into: Correspondence, Clippings, Exhibition Catalogs, Invoices, Photographs, and Sales Materials. Materials are arranged chronologically within each group. The Series arrangement of the Papers reflects their original order, as the materials were housed in accordion files, each containing material about a single work of art. In the absence of any discernable order to the materials within each file, the arrangement scheme described above was imposed during processing.

3.5 Linear feet ; 4 boxes.

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Epstein, Jacob, 1864-1945

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Jacob Epstein was born in Tauroggen, Lithuania in 1864. He immigrated to the United States in 1879, first arriving in New York, then making his way to Baltimore where he opened his first store in 1881. Epstein's store sold wholesale goods to merchants all around the southern U.S. and eventually became known as the Baltimore Bargain House and later the American Wholesale Corporation. It was sold in 1929. Epstein married Lena Weinberg in 1888. They had two daughters, Ethel in 1889 and Marian in 18...