Social Consciousness by Jacob Epstein

Scultpure outside Art Museum

Photo 46, Nov 2003

Phila Art Museum
Social Consciousness Sculpture

At the museum’s West Entrance, the elongated figures of Jacob Epstein’s Social Consciousness suggest sympathy, tenderness and sorrow for human suffering.

The three parts of Social Consciousness are (left to right) The Great Consoler (or Compassion), The Eternal Mother (or Destiny) and Succor (or Death). Epstein was a controversial sculptor. Some critics said his distorted figures looked unnatural, while others praised them as timeless.

Nov 2015, Photo 24

Phila Art Museum
Social Consciousness Sculpture

Nov 2015, Photo 29