| 1870/10/17 |
Frederic L Pape is born in San Francisco, California to Friederich Ludwig and Maria (Meier) Pape. |
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| 1888/00/00 |
Pape travels to France where he may have studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He does attend classes at the Academie Julian, studying under Gustave Boulanger, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Laurens. |
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| 1889/00/00 |
Pape lives for a year in northern Germany among peasants, probably with his father's family, in Lower Saxony, where he creates his first large Salon painting, "The Young Spinner of Zeven". |
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| 1890/00/00 |
Pape's painting, "The Young Spinner of Zeven", is exhibited at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts. |
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| 1890/10/00 |
Pape moves to Cairo, Egypt and rents a studio in the Old City recently vacated by painter John Singer Sargent. |
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Historic Cairo |
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| 1891/00/00 |
For nine months, Eric Pape moves lives beside the Great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza with a studio at Mena House. He works on several ambitions compositions and sells sketches to British tourist. |
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Marriott Mena House Hotel |
Giza |
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| 1891/00/00 |
Eric Pape depicts The Flight Into Egypt in "The Two Great Eras", a painting of the Holy Family camping in front of the Great Sphinx. |
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Great Sphinx |
Giza |
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| 1891/00/00 |
Eric Pape paints "The Great Sphinx by Moonlight" by moonlight. |
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Great Sphinx |
Giza |
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| 1891/00/00 |
Eric Pape captures "The Site of Ancient Memphis" in a painting. |
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Memphis and its Necropolis |
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| 1891/00/00 |
Using ropes to keep himself from falling off, Eric Pape sleeps overnight, with vultures circling overhead, atop the grand pyramid. |
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Great Pyramid of Khufu |
Giza |
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| 1893/07/00 |
Eric Pape exhibits "The Site of Ancient Memphis" and "The Great Sphinx by Moonlight" in Chicago at the World's Columbian Exposition. |
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Museum of Science and Industry |
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World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
| 1894/04/00 |
"The Young Spinner of Zeven" a painting by Eric Pape is awarded a medal at the California Midwinter International Exposition. |
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de Young Museum |
San Francisco |
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California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 |
| 1894/08/16 |
Pape returns to the United States in 1894 and marries fellow Academie Julian student, Alice Monroe in Boston, Massachusetts. The union will produce a one son, Moritz Pape. |
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| 1898/00/00 |
In 1892 Pape's friend Walter Launt Palmer, who evidently visited Pape at Giza, writes a short story about an artist obsessed with the pyramids. It will be published in Scribner's Magazine, vol 16, 1894. |
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| 1898/00/00 |
Eric Pape opens the Eric Pape School of Art in Boston. |
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| 1898/04/16 |
The twelfth and final installment of "The Turn of the Screw" is published in Collier's Weekly. The episode illustrations are by Eric Pape. |
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| 1901/00/00 |
Pape is invited to exhibit 97 of his paintings in the Palace of American Archaeology and Ethnology at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. He will be awarded a medal for the collection. |
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1901 Pan-American Exposition |
| 1906/00/00 |
Eric Pape designs a petition from Massachusetts to the US Congress to preserve the USS Constitution. This illuminated scroll is now on display in the National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC. |
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USS CONSTITUTION |
Boston |
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| 1938/11/04 |
Eric Pape suffers a heart attack while walking along Eighth Avenue near Fortieth Street in New York City and is taken to City Hospital on Welfare Island. |
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New York Savings Bank |
New York City |
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| 1938/11/07 |
Eric Pape remains unconscious until his death at City Hospital on Welfare Island. |
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City Hospital |
New York City |
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