Jules Eugene Pages

Jules Eugene Pages studied at Académie Julian. Places of work recorded in the authority are San Francisco, Amsterdam and Paris. Works named in the authority record are Sur le Zinc. Work by Jules Eugene Pages is recorded in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

• Name — Jules Eugene Pages • Born — 16 May 1867 • Birthplace — San Francisco, California, U.S. • Other Names — Jules Pages, Jules Eugène Pages, Jules Eugène Pagès • Known for — Landscape and marine paintings • Movement — Impressionism • Died — 22 May 1946 • Place of death — San Francisco, California, U.S.

Born in San Francisco, California on May 16, 1867, to parents with French ancestry. He was raised in an artistic environment. His father, Jules Françios Pages (1843-1910) ran a local engraving business, and his son worked there as an apprentice. 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. 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. 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). Following the outbreak of World War II, Pages returned to the United States and died in San Francisco on May 22, 1946.

• Illustration — Mariniers au Pont Neuf à Paris, 1910, Musée des beaux-arts de Pau, France