Nationality United States Movement Impressionism Period Impressionism | Known for painting Died 1946, Paris, France | |
Born 1867 San Francisco Education Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Tony Robert-Fleury | ||
Jules Eugene Pages sometimes Jules Eugène Pagès (1867-1946), born in San Francisco was an American painter.
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Raised in an artistic milieu, his father running an engraving business, he worked there as an apprentice. In 1888 he went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Tony Robert-Fleury. After returning to San Francisco, he worked as an illustrator for the The San Francisco Examiner, and other newspapers. He returned to Paris, in 1902 and began teaching night classes at the Académie Julian. Pages spent forty years in France, returning frequently to San Francisco to paint and exhibit his work. Following the outbreak of WW II, Pages returned to the United States and died in San Francisco on May 22, 1946. He is known for landscape, marine and genre paintings in the impressionist manner.