Blog – Joseph Papin Artist

Category: New York City

  • Joseph Papin: Southern District of NY Federal Courthouse

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    Joseph Papin, Southern District of New York Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse Note that the Southern District Court now meets in both the Southern District of New York Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse and the new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Southern District of New York Federal Courthouse (built in 1993). “On November 3, 1789,…

  • Joseph Papin – Greenwich Village around the borders

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    The post tonight goes back 63 years to a 1961 circular for Grand Union that Joseph Papin illustrated. I like the little border drawings of difference NYC Greenwich Village scenes as well as the drawing of the Washington Arch in Washington Square Park. Views: 45

  • Joseph Papin – Boats in the East River – NYC

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    I am fond of children’s literature and of the passage in The Wind in the Willows when Ratty says to Mole: “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” (Kenneth Grahame, 1908). The people crewing these boats were not “messing…

  • The Street is my Studio

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    Near the beginning of his career as a professional artist Joseph Papin wrote: “For the past few years I have been primarily concerned with reportorial art and have attempted to depict the endless streets, places, and people of the great city of New York in a continuing effort to see and understand and perhaps, as…

  • The Peking at the South Street Seaport (1975-2016)

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    If you look closely at yesterday’s post about the South Street Seaport and Schermerhorn Row, you can see four masts of a sailing ship in the background. That ship is the Peking, a four masted barque that was moored at the South Street Seaport as a part of the South Street Seaport Museum from 1975…

  • The South Street Seaport and Schermerhorn Row

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    One of Joseph Papin’s drawings that was a part the photo gallery that we sent to the Library of Congress in the summer of 2015 was this drawing of Schermerhorn Row. I found where it had appeared in the Daily News as a part of the “Undiscovered Manhattan” series by Hope Cooke. I didn’t recognize…