Bust of Winston Churchill (Epstein) Bust of Winston Churchill (Epstein) Jacob Epstein's bronze bust of Winston Churchill was completed in 1947. Epstein was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to create a sculpture of former British prime minister Winston Churchill in August 1945, after the end of the Second World War and shortly after Churchill lost the 1945 UK general election. Two casts have been displayed in the Oval Office. Another remains on display in the atrium of Churchill College, Cambridge. Epstein applied to become a British official war artist after he was conscripted in the First World War, but his application was rejected.
Barbara Epstein Barbara Epstein Barbara Epstein (August 30, 1928 – June 16, 2006) was a literary editor and founding co-editor of "The New York Review of Books". Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949. In 1953, she and editor Jason Epstein began a marriage that lasted 37 years. Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl", among other books. She next worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and the "Partisan Review". During the New York newspaper strike of 1963, Barbara and Jason