Jules Eugène Pages (American, 1867-1946)

Though born in San Francisco, Jules Pages would come to spend the majority of his career working and living in France. The artist first came to Paris in 1888, where he studied at the Académie Julian under Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant and Tony-Robert Fleury. He would eventually become an instructor at the Académie in his own right, the first American to hold such an honor. Through he lived in Paris for 40 years, Pages returned often to San Francisco to exhibit, and his work was well-known and well-regarded both in France and in the United States. Pages was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1910 and it was the outbreak of the Second World War which forced him to return to the United States, where he remained the rest of his life.