Frank Cheyne Papé was born in 1878. That's around the time of Mabel Lucie Attwell, Norman Lindsay, Harry Rountree, J. Allen St. John, and Ernest H. Shepard. His earliest recorded work, like Children of the Dawn was somewhat anachronistic with elements of Walter Crane and other artists of the Nineties. Even his color work, like the image from The Story Without End had an old-fashioned feel to them.
Sometime early in his career, while he was still working in color, Papé did illustrations for a series of fairy tale books - The Ruby Fairy Book, The Diamond Fairy Book and The Golden Fairy Book.
With the publication of the limited illustrated edition of Jurgen by James Branch Cabell in 1921, Frank C. Papé became an "overnight" success. Papé's illustrations were reproduced in photogravure for the plates and b&w for the images within the text. The plates debuted a new style and a device he was to use to great effect for years: an illustrated border below the main image. The frontispiece was to be one of his last published color paintings. Other Cabell books followed.
With the success of Jurgen, Papé was in demand to illustrate similar satire. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 and Papé was commissioned to illustrate a uniform set of his most famous books. After a few titles in the early thirties: like The Picture Story of Robinson Crusoe (1933), Tales From the Arabian Nights (1934) and Rachel the Immortal (1935), his career came to a very abrupt stop.
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