1. Eric Pape left the United States in 1888 for France where he studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Jean-Leon Gerome, and at the Academie Julian.
16 Facts About Eric Pape
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Eric Pape studied with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant at their private studios.
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Eric Pape traveled the Nile River and trekked into the Sahara Desert while living in Egypt.
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Eric Pape's works were exhibited in Paris; in Egypt at the Exposition du Caire; and in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
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Eric Pape returned to the United States in 1894 and married illustrator Alice Monroe in Boston, Massachusetts on August 16.
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Eric Pape taught for one year at the Cowles Art School in Boston.
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Eric Pape's works continued to be exhibited internationally, and he was afforded the privilege of one-man shows at the Detroit Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Museum of Art, and the Saint Louis Museum of Art.
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In 1901, Pape was invited to exhibit 97 of his paintings in the Palace of American Archaeology and Ethnology at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo; he won a medal for the collection.
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Eric Pape regularly illustrated articles for magazines, such as Scribner's Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and The Century Magazine, and Woman's World.
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Additionally, Pape worked as a stage designer for theatrical productions, most notably for Percy Mackaye's Canterbury Pilgrims, which was performed in honor of President William H Taft at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1909.
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In 1898, Eric Pape designed the sets for one of the earliest productions of "Trilby".
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In 1906, Eric Pape designed and released a petition from Massachusetts to the US Congress to preserve the USS Constitution.
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Eric Pape was a member of the United Arts Club of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Eric Pape was a member of "The Players" organization, having been recommended for membership by Mark Twain.
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Eric Pape was taken to City Hospital on Welfare Island where he remained unconscious until his death three days later.
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Eric Pape's works are widely held in museum collections including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the US Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, the National Portrait Gallery in London and many other locations.