Tag: Butler Library Columbia University
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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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Joseph Papin Portfolios – a selection of drawings
The following are portfolio pages from a variety of publications and subjects: Views: 1,158
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Joseph Papin – Richard Nixon drawings
Joseph Papin drawings, “Report Card for Richard Nixon” (National Review, June 3, 1969). The drawing above is another Papin drawing from the same article, “Report Card for Richard Nixon” (National Review, June 3, 1969). It’s interesting that this drawing was done in 1969 – a little more than five years before Nixon resigned. In light…
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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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Four Color Separations
These are proof pages of four-color separations from the printer of the May 7, 1966 cover of Business Week that Joseph Papin illustrated. It was rolled up in the back of a cabinet with three other of his Business Week covers. This one is my favorite because of all the color and how interesting the…
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Joseph Papin Daily News Zinc Printing Plates
The last post showed photoengraved zinc printing plates mounted on wood. They were from 1967 and were printed as relief (also known as letterpress) prints, i.e., the words and lines of the drawing are higher than the plate itself. Some of the plates were also unmounted zinc plates, and later, magnesium printing plates: For example,…
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The Process of Producing Photoengraved Printing Plates
Joe Papin, April 7, 1980, New York Daily News In order to explain the printing plates, I have researched the process and history of printing from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, a time period of enormous change. Just as the specter of cameras in the courtroom informs the story of courtroom art, the…
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Faces of the Bowery
Drawings and note by Joseph Papin, circa 1957 “Some of the passersby on the Bowery The gentleman to the right explained he was 32 years with the Merchant Marine, spiced story with harrowing adventures on the high seas, concluding with a request for a drink. Voiced disappointment when it was discovered I had no money.”…
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The Other Side of the Street on the Bowery
We looked at the buildings on the even-numbered side of the Bowery circa 1957 compared to the most recent 2022 Google maps image. Tonight we are looking at the odd-numbered side. Once again, the document by Architectural and Urban Historian Kerri Culhane, The Bowery Historic District State and National Register Report (listed in the National…
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Buildings on the Bowery: Drawings by Joseph Papin
I discovered two wonderful resources in the process of working to correctly identify the addresses and names of the buildings in Joseph Papin’s Bowery street drawings. The Bowery Alliance of Neighbors (BAN) put together a fascinating exhibit called Windows on the Bowery that provides photos and descriptions of some of the buildings on the Bowery…
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The last Bowery flophouse
Joseph Papin, various Bowery flophouse hotel signs, circa 1957. The rest of the drawings in this post are circa 1957 unless noted. The stretch of road known as the Bowery is about one mile long, from Chatham Square to Cooper Square. The Bowery is no longer skid row. Some of the buildings on the Bowery…
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Blackie McBride: 30 Years on the Bowery
“’Share and share alike’ was the motto of Blackie McBride, a citizen of 30 years standing on the Bowery. His face and general person showed the truth of his statement that he been all over and knew and had done it all! Blackie was of medium build, rather short with thinning gray hair and deep…
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Stories on the Bowery
I had initially put together what I thought were all of Joseph Papin’s on-the-scene Bowery drawings and his notes. After the drawings and notes I found were compiled, I found many more. The drawings that surfaced later were illustrated in a manner somewhat similar to the style of some graphic novels, and told the stories…
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The Bowery Mission
Joseph Papin, on-the-scene drawings on the Bowery at the Bowery Mission, circa 1957. “Basement, Bowery Mission, run by the Christian Herald, men know as ‘the boys’ wait in line to show identity cards and have meal ticket punched, next on schedule a 45 min message from the minister in upstairs chapel.” “Group of the boys,…
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Drawing on the Bowery
“As an example of my wanderings, let me briefly introduce the Bowery …” (The Street is my Studio, Joseph Papin, American Artist, 1959). Drawings done on-the-scene circa 1957. “$0.60 per night, $2.85 per week” “Monroe Hotel on the Bowery providing the barest necessities for its patrons, rates seemed reasonable, reading facilities were provided for those…