Jacob Epstein fights the Hun at home

One hundred years ago this week, as millions of fellow Americans received their call-up papers after the US entered the First World War, the New York-born sculptor Jacob Epstein faced a tribunal in London to be exempt from military service. Epstein had moved to Europe in 1902 and become a naturalised Brit in 1911. Already famousand controversialthe tribunal heard that it would be a great national loss if Epstein took up arms and was sent to the Front. If a sculptor lost an eye or hand he would