Timeline
| Date | Private | Public | Related Works |
| 1880 | Born in New York on November 10 | ||
| 1894 | Begins studying at the Art Student’s League of New York | Men with Mice and Birds or Fortune Telling with Rats The Sweat Shop or Lunch in the Shop |
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| 1901 | Illustrated Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto Draws self-portrait |
Self Portrait | |
| 1902 | Moves to Paris | ||
| 1903 | Meets Margaret Dunlop | ||
| 1904 | Sculpts: Baby Awake Baby Asleep |
Baby Awake | |
| 1905 | Moves to London | Sculpts Mother and Child | |
| 1906 | Sculpts Girl with a dove | ||
| 1907 | Marries Margaret Dunlop | Commissioned to decorate the British Medical Association Building in the Strand Sculpts Romilly John |
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| 1908 | Completes the decoration of the British Medical Association Building Sculpts: Euphemia Lamb Fountain Figure |
Study for Maternity (BMA building) | |
| 1909 | Draws Nan Condron Sculpts: Mrs Ambrose McEvoy Narcissus Rom |
Head of Nan | |
| 1910 | Acquires British citizenship on December 22 | Sculpts: Crouching Sun Goddess Lady Gregory Marie Rankin Maternity Mrs Emily Chadbourne One of the hundred pillars of the secret temple Rom Sun God The Flame of Life |
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| 1912 | Completes the tomb of Oscar Wilde | Study for the Tomb of Oscar Wilde | |
| 1913 | Has first one man exhibition at the Twenty-One Gallery Begins work on Rock Drill |
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| 1916 | Moves to 23 Guildford Street, London | Exhibits Rock Drill | |
| 1917 | Conscripted as a private in the Jewish 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers | Has first exhibition at the Leicester Galleries Fails to gain a commission as an official war artist |
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| 1918 | Daughter Peggy Jean Epstein born | ||
| 1920 | Exhibits Risen Christ | The Risen Christ or Noli me Tangere (Touch me Not) Hands of the Risen Christ |
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| 1921 | Meets Kathleen Garman | First Portrait of Kathleen | |
| 1922 | Commissioned to create the W.H Hudson Memorial | ||
| 1924 | Son Theodore Garman born | Rejected as a candidate for the Chair of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art | |
| 1925 | Completes the Hudson Memorial | ||
| 1926 | Exhibits Visitation | ||
| 1927 | Daughter Kitty Garman born | Exhibits Madonna and Child | Portrait of Kitty First Portrait of Kitty with curls Heads of New York Madonna and Child Kitty II |
| 1928 | Moves to 18 Hyde Park Gate, Knightsbridge | Commissioned to carve Day and Night on the London Underground Electric Railways headquarters | |
| 1929 | Daughter Esther Garman born | 3rd Portrait of Esther with Flower First portrait of Esther with long hair |
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| 1931 | Exhibits Genesis | ||
| 1932 | Exhibits Old Testament watercolours | ||
| 1933 | Paints almost a hundred watercolours of Epping Forest | Autumn Landscape, Epping Forest | |
| 1934 | Son Jackie Epstein born | Begins carving Ecce Homo | |
| 1935 | Ecce Homo attacked by the Catholic press | ||
| 1936 | Begins carving Consummatum Est | ||
| 1937 | British Medical Association statues are mutilated | ||
| 1938 | Receives an honorary degree from Aberdeen University | ||
| 1939 | Exhibits Adam | Figure Study Male Nude Adam | |
| 1942 | Exhibits Jacob and the Angel | ||
| 1945 | Exhibits Lucifer, which is rejected as a gift by the Tate and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge | ||
| 1947 | Margaret Epstein dies | ||
| 1949 | Commissioned to create Youth Advancing for the Festival of Britain | ||
| 1950 | Commissioned to create Madonna and Child for the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus in London | ||
| 1951 | Exhibits Lazarus | ||
| 1953 | Receives an honorary doctorate from Oxford University | Refuses an offer of membership to the Royal Society of British Sculptors Commissioned to create Christ in Majesty for Llandaff Cathedral |
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| 1954 | Receives a knighthood Son Theodore Garman dies Daughter Esther Garman dies |
Begins Liverpool Resurgent for the John Lewis department store in Liverpool | |
| 1955 | Marries Kathleen Garman | Commissioned to create: The Trade Union Congress War memorial in London St Michael and the Devil for Coventry Cathedral |
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| 1956 | Liverpool Resurgent is unveiled | ||
| 1957 | Christ in Majesty is unveiled | ||
| 1958 | The TUC War Memorial is unveiled Begins the Bowater House Group |
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| 1959 | Dies of a heart attack on August 19 at 18 Hyde Park Gate and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery after a memorial service at St Paul’s Cathedral | Completes the Bowater House Group on the day of his death |