english illustrator
Frank Cheyne Papé
Frank Cheyne Papé lived a long life. Unfortunately we don’t seem to know very much about it. Papé was born in 1878 and later lived in Tunbridge Wells with his wife Agnes.
He appears to have started illustrating at the beginning of the 1900’s and hit the big time with his work in James Branch Cabell’s rather risqué ‘Jurgen’ in 1921.
Papé continued his black and white work with more of cabell’s books and other satires. He died in 1972 aged 94.
Below is an example of Papés magical earlier colour work. The Russian Story Book is a ‘retelling of tales from the song-cycles of Kiev and Novgorod and other early sources’.
The Russian Story Book – 1916
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