Exhibitions
Discover Eric Pape Exhibitions
Eric Pape: Fantasy Illustrations
April 3rd-26th, 2026 | Hammond Castle Museum
Join us for our fourth annual Eric Pape fine art exhibition at the Hammond Castle Museum, featuring a significant collection of pen and ink illustrations by Eric Pape (1870 to 1938). Many of these works were recovered from Pape’s locked studio decades after his death and have not been publicly exhibited in over a century. Included are illustrations originally created for The Arabian Nights, Tales of Wonder and Magnificence, Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Shakespeare and The Heart of a Child by Gertrude Slaughter.
This year’s exhibition will feature 73 works on loan from renowned conflict zone photographer Bruce Haley. These pieces have recently been cleaned and conserved and have not been publicly exhibited since Eric Pape’s death in 1938. The illustrations are being loaned from Haley’s extensive art collection in Northern California. The exhibition will also include more than a dozen works from Dr. Gregory Conn’s personal collection, previously exhibited at the Queen Christina House Museum and the Museum Kloster in Zeven, Germany.
Admission to this temporary exhibition also includes self-guided tour access to the Museum. Guests will also have the opportunity to view the sole remaining Eric Pape mural on permanent display in the Dr. Gregory Conn and Dr. Sagrario Ortega Room in the Lower Den.
At the time of the exhibit, it was expected to be the largest collection of Pape’s artworks on public display anywhere in the world, many of which haven’t been publicly seen in nearly a century.
The artwork is primarily on loan from the private collection from renowned conflict zone photographer Bruce Haley. A number of pieces will be from the private collection of avid Pape collector and biographer Dr. Gregory Conn, one of the world’s leading experts on the 20th-century artist.
Eric Pape &
The Fair God
2025 | Hammond Castle Museum
At the time of the exhibit, it was expected to be the largest collection of Pape’s artworks on public display anywhere in the world, many of which haven’t been publicly seen in nearly a century.
An extraordinary fine art exhibit featuring over 50 works by renowned artist and former Cape Ann resident, Eric Pape (1870–1938). Curated predominantly from the private collection of Dr. Gregory Conn, the world’s leading Pape collector and biographer, this special exhibition showcases a select group of Pape’s 300 illustrations for The Fair God (1898)—many unseen since his death in 1938.
Gertrude Cawein at Hammond Castle Museum
2024 | Hammond Castle Museum
In celebration of the restoration and conservation of the important society oil portrait “Gertrude Cawein” by Eric Pape,on loan from the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky.
This exhibition of art by Eric Pape includes many examples of Eric Pape´s portrait studies from throughout his career, all unseen publicly since the artist´s death in 1938. Including numerous pieces of personal memorabilia from Eric Pape´s “Locked Studio” related to the Pape and Cawein families
This will be the first time this portrait has been seen outside the Filson Museum. Gertrude will be traveling to the Hammond Castle Museum where she will be undergoing important conservation by Timothy Neill, the art conservator who repaired and conserved the massive mural “Wireless Naval Battle on Gloucester Bay” by Eric Pape, which hangs in the Hammond Castle.
Eric Pape at Hammond Castle Museum
2023 | Hammond Castle Museum
“Eric Pape at the Hammond Castle Museum” an exhibition of artworks by Eric Pape at the Hammond Castle in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 2023 coincided with the 400th anniversary (1623-2023) celebrations for the founding of Gloucester.
Artist Eric Pape was an important figure in the history of the city. He maintained his summer homes and conducted summer plein art courses for large groups of his art students in Gloucester and Cape Ann from 1898 through 1924.
Photos from the Exhibit
Eric Pape and The Players
2022 | Players Club in NYC
Pape, known in the press as “The Master of the Pageant,” had a lifelong working interest in the theatre and produced set and costume designs for on and off-Broadway theatrical productions.
Pape was one of the earliest members of The Players, his membership having been seconded by his friend, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), in 1894. At the time of his death in 1938 he was the longest participating graphic artist with membership in The Players.
Photos from the Exhibit
Zeven Exhibition
2022 | Museum Kloster and Queen Christina House
This exhibition project is a twofold rediscovery. On the one hand, the artistic legacy of Eric Pape, who was highly regarded and famous in his time, had been locked in his studio for decades and been forgotten. On the other hand, his family and also his artistic relation to Zeven had been completely unknown until a short while ago.
We owe the rediscovery of the artist and his works to the dedication of Dr. Gregory Conn, an American collector and patron of the arts. For more than two decades, he has compiled many works and conducted research on their creation and on the art and life of Eric Pape. He supported the project with his knowledge, great enthusiasm and financial generosity—making the exhibition possible.
The Heimatbund Bremervörde-Zeven discovered Eric Pape’s connection to Zeven and researched the family history in the context of the painting The Young Spinner of Zeven. Special thanks go to Ewald Albers and Hella Albers (now Dohmann) as well as Jürgen Behn and Werner Fromm, without whom no one in Zeven would ever have known about Eric Pape.
Our heartfelt thanks to the Landschaftsverband Stade for generously supporting the project.
Norbert Wolf, Mayor
Henning Fricke, Head of administration of Zeven
Photos from the Exhibit
