Jules Eugene Pages

Jules Eugene Pages
Born (1867-05-16)May 16, 1867
San Francisco, California
Died May 22, 1946(1946-05-22) (aged 79)
San Francisco, California
Nationality United States
Other names Jules Pages, Jules Eugène Pages, Jules Eugène Pagès
Known for Landscape and marine paintings
Movement Impressionism

Jules Eugene Pages (1867-1946), sometimes Jules Eugène Pagès, was an American painter.[1] He is known for landscape, marine and genre paintings in the impressionist manner.[2]

Biography

Born in San Francisco, California on May 16, 1867, to parents with French ancestry.[1][3] He was raised in an artistic environment.[1] His father, Jules Françios Pages (1843-1910) ran a local engraving business, and his son worked there as an apprentice.[2][4][3] In 1888, he moved to Paris, France in order to study at the Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Tony Robert-Fleury.[3]

After returning to San Francisco, he worked as an illustrator for The San Francisco Examiner, and other newspapers. He returned to Paris, in 1902 and began teaching night classes at the Académie Julian.[3] Pages spent forty years in France, returning frequently to San Francisco to paint and exhibit his work. He exhibited his work in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE).[3]

Following the outbreak of World War II, Pages returned to the United States and died in San Francisco on May 22, 1946.[5]

Collections

Bibliography

Bohemian Club, 1946 :Jules Pages took his leave the other day ...[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pagès, Jules Eugène. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2011-10-31. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00134778.
  2. 1 2 "Jules Eugene Pages". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Huges, Edan Milton (1989). Artists in California 1786-1940 II. San Francisco, CA. p. 420. ISBN 0-9616112-1-9.
  4. ↑ Hart, James D. (1987). Companion to California. University of California Press. p. 374. ISBN 0520055446 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Fada.org
  6. ↑ Musée d'Orsay
  7. ↑ Worldcat
  8. ↑ World Catalog


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