www.PeterJungFineArt.com/ Artist Roster/ American ArtistsArtist Name: Eric Pape (1870-1938) Medium: Oil on Panel Size: 26" x 22" - Signed lower right Price: $9,500
Born in San Francisco on October 17, 1870, Eric Pape began his art education at the San Francisco School of Design with Emil Carlsen and then went to Europe for five years. In Paris, he studied with Boulanger, Lefebvre, and Laurens, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts with Jean Leon Gerome. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1890. He then spent two years traveling extensively in Egypt. In 1894, a year after his return to the United States, he married Alice Monroe of Boston.
In Boston in 1898, he founded the Eric Pape School of Art, which he served for years as Director and Head Instructor. In 1906, he designed and executed the petition to the U.S. Congress from the citizens of Massachusetts to preserve from destruction the U.S. Frigate Constitution. The ship is now permanently in the Naval Museum in Washington. He also designed the memorial to the Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1623, and the monument is at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester.
Memberships included in London, England The Society of Arts, Atlantic Union, and the United Arts Club. He was also a member of The Players in New York.
