biografia di Eric PAPE (1870-1938)

Birth place: San Francisco, CA

Addresses: NYC, 1890s/Paris, France, 1893; Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA

Profession: Painter, sculptor, illustrator, teacher

Studied: E. Carlsen, Mark Hopkins Inst., San Fran.; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with Gérome; Acad. Julian, Paris, with Boulanger, Constant, Lefebvre, & Doucet, up to 1889; also in Paris with Delance, Whistler & Rodin.

Exhibited: SNBA, 1890, 1892-94 (as Frederic Pape); World's Columbian Expo, 1893; PAFA Ann., 1893 (as Frederick L.M. Pape), 1894-1912 (5 times); Calif. Midwinter Fair, 1894; NAD, 1895-96, 1935; Boston AC, 1898-99 (Egyptian scenes); AIC, 1901-03, 1931; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915. Awards: medals and diplomas, various exhs.

Member: United Arts Club, Royal Soc. Arts, Atlantic Union (all, of London); North British Acad.; Players Club, NYC.

Comments: After studying in Paris, Pape traveled to Germany and throughout Europe and North Africa before returning to the U.S. He established himself in NYC as a successful illustrator while continuing to paint figurative pieces, but spent most of his career in Boston. Position: founder/dir., Eric Pape Sch. Art, 1897-1913. Illustr.: The Fair God; The Scarlet Letter; The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte; Life of Mahomet; Poetical Works of Madison Cawein; The Memoirs of Ellen Terry. Designer: mon., Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, commemorating founding of Mass. Bay Colony, 1623. (He was born Frederic Pape.)

Sources: WW38; 125 Years of American Watercolor Painting (exh. cat., NYC: Spanierman Gal., 1998); Hughes, Artists in California; Fink, Am. Art at the 19th C. Paris Salons, 377 (as Frederic Pape); PHF files; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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