DOI Heft:
No. 66 (August, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Niehaus, Regina Armstrong: An American painter: Eric Pape
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22774#0124
Eric
been vacated by Mr. John S. Sargent, and its
location, being in the garden of an Oriental col-
lector, offered many opportunities in the way of
Oriental furniture, rugs, jewels, and the like which
an artist could use as accessories and take delight
in for colour and form.
Mr. Pape also travelled extensively in Egypt,
at one time taking a trip under the escort of a
native Arab, each traveller being mounted upon a
camel, and at night sleeping upon the sand with
the saddle as a pillow. Nine months were passed
at the Pyramids, directly under the gaze of the
Sphinx, and his love of adventure caused him to
pass one night upon the top of the pyramid of
Gizeh. One of his successful paintings, The Sphinx
by Moonlight, was painted with no other light than
that of the moon upon his canvas and palette.
Every spectacle which could add to his scenic
resources he lost no occasion of witnessing, and
many bits of architectural beauty and natural aspect
he has preserved in some sketch or study. These
were assiduously collected for future use, and
the record of them is seen in the ornate re-
sources which he brings to bear upon his different
subjects. But the most tangible result of his study
in Egypt was the large canvas, The Two Great
Pape
Eras, in which he has introduced the Flight into
Egypt as against the background of the crumbled
old' [Egyptian divinity, lighting up the little group
of the Holy Family by a fire the wayfarers have
kindled at the base of the pyramid. The picture
gives admirably the idea which Mr. Pape found in
the lines of Isaiah: “ The people that walked in
darkness, have seen a great light. They that dwell
in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath
the light shined.”
One hesitates to enumerate the work which has
identified Mr. Pape, for it runs into a prodigious
inventory, but through its many phases of character
one gets the different notes that various scenes
have contributed. In the illustrations [he has
executed for books and periodicals, those which he
did for The Fair God, published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., stand out as quite distinctive from
his other work. For the purposes of this under-
taking he went to Mexico and made diligent
researches in Aztec treasures, and in the little
addenda, such as head- and tail-pieces, initial
letters and marginal embellishments, he has tran-
scribed a pictorial museum of the manners,
costumes, and lore of the peoples of that period.
At the Pan-American Exposition he exhibited,
BY EKIC PAPE
been vacated by Mr. John S. Sargent, and its
location, being in the garden of an Oriental col-
lector, offered many opportunities in the way of
Oriental furniture, rugs, jewels, and the like which
an artist could use as accessories and take delight
in for colour and form.
Mr. Pape also travelled extensively in Egypt,
at one time taking a trip under the escort of a
native Arab, each traveller being mounted upon a
camel, and at night sleeping upon the sand with
the saddle as a pillow. Nine months were passed
at the Pyramids, directly under the gaze of the
Sphinx, and his love of adventure caused him to
pass one night upon the top of the pyramid of
Gizeh. One of his successful paintings, The Sphinx
by Moonlight, was painted with no other light than
that of the moon upon his canvas and palette.
Every spectacle which could add to his scenic
resources he lost no occasion of witnessing, and
many bits of architectural beauty and natural aspect
he has preserved in some sketch or study. These
were assiduously collected for future use, and
the record of them is seen in the ornate re-
sources which he brings to bear upon his different
subjects. But the most tangible result of his study
in Egypt was the large canvas, The Two Great
Pape
Eras, in which he has introduced the Flight into
Egypt as against the background of the crumbled
old' [Egyptian divinity, lighting up the little group
of the Holy Family by a fire the wayfarers have
kindled at the base of the pyramid. The picture
gives admirably the idea which Mr. Pape found in
the lines of Isaiah: “ The people that walked in
darkness, have seen a great light. They that dwell
in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath
the light shined.”
One hesitates to enumerate the work which has
identified Mr. Pape, for it runs into a prodigious
inventory, but through its many phases of character
one gets the different notes that various scenes
have contributed. In the illustrations [he has
executed for books and periodicals, those which he
did for The Fair God, published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., stand out as quite distinctive from
his other work. For the purposes of this under-
taking he went to Mexico and made diligent
researches in Aztec treasures, and in the little
addenda, such as head- and tail-pieces, initial
letters and marginal embellishments, he has tran-
scribed a pictorial museum of the manners,
costumes, and lore of the peoples of that period.
At the Pan-American Exposition he exhibited,
BY EKIC PAPE