Eric Pape was a summer resident of Cape Ann and a close neighbor and friend to the Hammond family, often attending dinners at the Hammond estate at Lookout Hill dining with the crème of American financial and political life.

He was “Master of Pageant” for the city-wide celebration held in 1909 for President Taft in Gloucester, sponsored by John Hays Hammond Sr., and he designed the grounds at the Hammond estate for many charity events sponsored by Mrs. John Hays Hammond, including the Women’s Titanic Memorial in 1912.

After the death of his first wife Alice Monroe in 1911, Eric suffered a nervous breakdown and the Hammonds “adopted” his eight-year-old son Moritz. Eric Pape painted many portraits of the Hammonds, and in 1918 Pape painted the massive mural Wireless Naval Battle on Gloucester Bay for Jack Hammond, first installed in his “bungalow” at Radio Point and later moved to his “castle” upon its completion.

This art exhibition at the Hammond Castle Museum celebrating the restoration of this mural includes many pieces of Eric Pape’s art unknown to the public and is primarily drawn from the artworks discovered in the “Locked Studio” of the artist some sixty years after his death in 1938. It is a continuation of two earlier exhibitions including Eine Wiederentdeckung (The Rediscovery) in 2021 where sixty artworks by Eric Pape from the collection of Dr. Conn were exhibited in Zeven, Germany at the Museum Kloster and Queen Christina House Museum.