Winged Figure in 1961. John Lewis originally approached Jacob Epstein to create a sculpture to decorate the plain Portland stone side wall of the new store, but he declined as he was engaged on other commissions. Instead, in May 1961, John Lewis asked six other artists to propose designs. In addition to Hepworth – whose breakthrough public sculpture, "Meridian", had recently been installed outside State House on Holborn – the others were Ralph Brown, Geoffrey Clarke, Tony Hollaway, Stefan Knapp, William Mitchell and Hans Tisdall. None of their initial designs was accepted. Hepworth had been asked to express "the idea of common
Jason Epstein have appeared in "The New York Times Magazine", "The New York Review of Books", and "Condé Nast Traveler", among other publications. He is the author of the following books: In 1953 Jason Epstein married Barbara Zimmerman with whom he had two children, Jacob and Helen. The couple divorced in 1990 and in 1993 he married Judith Miller, a reporter for "The New York Times" and daughter of impresario Bill Miller. Jason Epstein Jason Wolkow Epstein (born August 25, 1928) is an American editor and publisher. Born to a Jewish family on August 25, 1928 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An only child,