Category: New York City
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Joseph Papin at the Nedick’s at Thanksgiving 1959
“Window painting on Eighth Street” “A scene at the Thanksgiving window painting contest held on West Eighth Street Tuesday sponsored by the Eighth Street Businessmen’s Association and the West Side Savings Bank. Drawing especially for The Villager by Joseph Papin.” (The Villager, Greenwich Village New York, November 25, 1959) A good friend who is an…
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Joseph Papin at the Army Pictorial Center
Joseph Papin was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army in 1955. He served as the Motion Picture Animation Director making training films for the Defense Department from 1955 to 1957 at the Army Pictorial Center (APC) in Long Island City, Queens NY. He continued to do some work for…
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Joseph Papin – Chelsea in NYC – 40 years ago
Karen Green is the Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University Libraries who coordinated the Papin family donation of Joseph Papin’s extensive collection of NYC drawings and papers to Columbia. She recently took some lovely photographs in Chelsea and I was reminded of some of Joe Papin’s drawings of Chelsea that ran in the…
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Joseph Papin – Teaching drawing classes for youth in East Harlem
Joseph Papin taught drawing to youth in East Harlem when he was working with the East Harlem Protestant Parish in East Harlem in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The following notice appeared in The Edge, East Harlem’s Monthly Newspaper, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 24, 1959. The drawings are ones that Joseph Papin did of some…
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An Early Article on Joseph Papin
An early article (August 27, 1966) about Joseph Papin talks about his work drawing on-the-scene at the Mayo Clinic and the Washington DC book that he illustrated, as well as his career up to that point. I have transcribed the text in the main article below: “Area artist on Festival panel By Nancy Wood Hall,…
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Joseph Papin Portfolios – a selection of drawings
The following are portfolio pages from a variety of publications and subjects: Views: 980
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Joseph Papin and Bill Honan at The Villager – late 1950s to early 1960s
Bill Honan was the editor of The Villager when Joseph Papin drew for the paper. I posted the following drawing a week and half ago (my apologies as my best intentions to post this immediately were thwarted by some recent time commitments). The credit reads: “Carmine G. DeSapio (left) at a press conference in the…
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Joseph Papin: Friends at The Villager in the late 1950s – early 1960s
The following is a Joseph Papin drawing that appeared in The Villager on August 20, 1959: “DeSapio Press Conference – Carmine G. DeSapio (left) at a press conference in the Fifth Avenue Hotel this week with members of The Villager’s editorial staff. For story please turn to page three. Drawing especially for The Villager by…
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Joseph Papin – East Harlem
Joseph Papin’s drawing of the corner of 100th Street and 2nd Avenue, circa 1958: In 1958, Joseph Papin wrote: “East Harlem is one of the world’s most densely populated areas, the most overcrowded section of NYC, where 300,000 people live jammed together in little over one square mile. Many of my drawings were done on…
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Joseph Papin at the Opening of the Guggenheim Museum 1959
Joseph Papin has a series of drawings that he did at the opening of the Guggenheim Museum in October 1959. These drawings are now a part of his collection of work at Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), Butler Library, Columbia University in NYC. The drawing below reads “Lobby Guggenheim Museum, Artists’ Night” and is…
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Joseph Papin: Southern District of NY Federal Courthouse
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,…
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Joseph Papin – Greenwich Village around the borders
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: 1,041
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Joseph Papin – Boats in the East River – NYC
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…
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The Street is my Studio
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…
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The South Street Seaport and Schermerhorn Row
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…