Tag: Joseph Papin
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Joseph Papin and “Undiscovered Manhattan” by Hope Cooke – The Dakota
One of the buildings that Joseph Papin drew for a column called “Undiscovered Manhattan” was the Dakota. Although the following article by Hope Cooke that ran with the drawing does not mention it, the Dakota was the residence of John Lennon of the Beatles and his wife, Yoko Ono, and the place where John Lennon…
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Joseph Papin – John Gotti et al 1986 trial
This drawing by Joseph Papin is an interesting one – it reads, “Attorneys protest press coverage with clippings and front pages.” The people pictured are Judge Eugene H. Nickerson, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn Federal Court; from left to right, Richard Rehbock, attorney for defendant Wilfred Johnson; Barry Slotnick, one…
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Happy Holidays from the pen of Joseph Papin
This drawing by Joseph Papin appeared in the December 24, 1978 issue of the Daily News illustrating an article by Dick Ryan. The date of Christmas and Hanukkah corresponded this year – Hanukkah beginning on the evening of December 25, 2024. Views: 279
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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: 1,158
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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 – 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 Mitchell-Stans Trial 1974
The caption for the drawing below reads: “Mitchell-Stans trial, 1974” and at the bottom, “Joseph Papin, F. Donald Nixon testifying at the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans.” It is one of Joseph Papin’s “overhead drawings” that he drew as if he had an overhead vantage place which he did not – he…
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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 – Drawing for Business Week’s Economic Commentary by Leonard Silk
The following are some illustrations from a Business Week publication, Economic Commentary: Reflections and Critiques from the pages of Business Week, by Leonard S. Silk, June 1, 1966, illustrations by Joseph Papin. From the New York Times Obituary: “Leonard Silk Dies at 76; Times Columnist Helped the Public to Understand Economics.” By Louis Uchitelle, February…
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Joseph Papin Memorial Day – Washington D.C. (drawings circa 1965)
The following drawings by Joseph Papin are all contained in the book, Washington, D.C., published by The Seabury Press in 1966, written by James Playsted Wood and illustrated by Joseph Papin. Arlington Cemetery, Joseph Papin, 1966. Citing an Arlington Cemetery brochure: “Laying our Nation’s veterans and their eligible family members to rest with dignity and…
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Joseph Papin – Memorial Day remembrance and drawings of Vietnam
The following drawing by Joseph Papin was printed in the May 29, 1977 edition of the Daily News for Memorial Day, illustrating a story by Walter Kaner, We Mourn in Peace, Thanks to Fallen Soldiers. I believe that the following drawings by Joseph Papin may have been done as sketches for David Halberstam’s article, Return…
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Courtroom Art: An Interview with Joseph Papin, New York and Company, 1987 (Part 2)
(Second half of interview of Joseph Papin [JP] by Leonard Lopate [LL], Aired December 14, 1987) LL: “We’re talking with Joe Papin who is more than just a courtroom artist—we’ve introduced you as a courtroom artist—but you have illustrated Washington and UN scenes; military and international affairs; medical, financial, sports and industrial events. Your work…
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Courtroom Art: An Interview with Joseph Papin, New York and Company, 1987 (Part 1)
Interview by Leonard Lopate, New York and Company, Aired on December 14, 1987 (Transcribed and illustrated using Joseph Papin’s work, J Papin, 2021) Joseph Papin, F. Donald Nixon testifying at the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans, 1974Joseph Papin’s drawing of the Mitchell Stans trial (reproduced above and drawn from his seat at…
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Recent Connections – Joseph Papin’s Coverage of the Pizza Connection Trial
A cousin recently sent me some things that Joseph Papin had given to one of his brothers. One was a publication I had not seen before – the U.S. Federal Marshals Service journal, The Pentacle. It included a drawing Joe Papin had done of the Pizza Connection trial; another was a copy of a cartoon…
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Joseph Papin at the Wedtech Trial – NY Daily News and the Riverdale Press
Joseph Papin covered the Wedtech Trial for both the Daily News and the Riverdale Press. His drawing of the courtroom below is one of the ones that he drew from an overhead perspective while sitting at ground level: Daily News: August 5, 1988 “The Defendants Listen as jury forewoman reads the verdicts.” Joe Papin’s political…
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Joe Papin – Drawing Caricatures at OSU and Daily News Events
Joe Papin started as an artist working his way through Ohio State University. One of the ways that he supported himself was by drawing caricatures, once using his talents to pay for a trip to Florida. LANTERNPublished by the Ohio State University School of JournalismColumbus, Ohio, Tuesday, January 25, 1955 Papin Caricatures Gain Popularity “Pardonne-moi,…
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Joseph Papin – Sketches of Bobby and Ted Kennedy
One of our cousins sent some cards and drawings that Joe Papin had given to his brother Don. One was a little sketch that was done on a piece of paper from a United States Senate Memo pad. It looks like it already had a bit of writing or a little doodle on it before…
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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: 1,176
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Joseph Papin – “Spectating the Spectators” – Car and Driver
I found two of Joseph Papin’s original on-the-scene drawings that ran in the January 1962 Car and Driver magazine: “Spectating the Spectators by Joseph Papin “It’s true sports car races give a chance to see a variety of interesting machinery, but perhaps more fascinating are the thousands of fans crowding behind the snowfencing. You should…
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Joseph Papin – Printing Plates for two perspectives on the legalization of marijuana
I had not realized that April 20 was adopted as as the day of celebrating cannabis about 35 years ago. The January 30, 1968 issue of National Review was published more than 20 years before that time. Joseph Papin illustrated two articles that addressed whether marijuana should be legalized. (“Should We Legalize Pot?” National Review,…
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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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Joseph Papin – Photostats
Joseph Papin had a quite a few photostats of his drawings. He often had both a “white lines on black background” version of the drawing, as well as the more familiar “black lines on white background” version. These photostats are of his earlier work from 1957 through the 1960s, with at least a couple in…
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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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Linotype and Ludlow – Casting Lead Type
I found an interesting chart that differentiates the different types of metal compositions using lead in producing type for printing: “While often referred to as ‘lead type,’ type is, in fact, a variable alloy of 54-86% lead, 11-28% antimony and 3-18% tin. Antimony hardens the metal. Tin toughens the metal, counteracting the brittleness of antimony,…
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Linotype
The following drawing of a Linotype machine by Joseph Papin was done for the August 1958 issue of Harper’s Magazine on the New York Times. The New York Times stopped using their Linotypes in 1978 and switched to using computers; the Daily News got rid of their Linotypes in 1979, ending almost 100 years of…
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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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Joseph Papin Printing Plates
The 50s to the 90s were marked by a revolution in printing – from “hot type” using molten lead and photoengraving to “cold type” using computers. I found a box of printing plates of some of my father’s drawings in his studio and was intrigued with learning how they were used. The printing plate below…
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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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East Harlem Protestant Parish – Happy Easter!
Joseph Papin did this drawing when he was working with the East Harlem Protestant Parish (EHPP) in NYC in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He illustrated their work with the community and with the gangs in the area and taught art classes to the youth. Views: 544
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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…
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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…
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Daily News Newspoint Rotogravure Printing
These drawings are three of about a dozen done by Joseph Papin depicting various operations at the Daily News Newspoint printing facility. Newspoint was in operation from 1972-1982 – an astonishingly short time. I wasn’t completely certain of what type of printing Newspoint did until I found the following section of an article by Peter…
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Drawing cartoons of one another – Joe Papin and Jerry Schlamp
Jerry Schlamp was one of the artists located in Editorial Art on the 7th floor of the Daily News building. Jerry was known for his cartoons which ranged from being gently playful to wickedly funny to drawings that were described as “way over the top.” I have not seen the “way over the top” drawings…
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Covering the 1960 United Nations General Assembly
Welcome to the new Joseph Papin Blog! Joseph Papin specialized in reportorial art – on-the-scene drawing – the artist as reporter. He illustrated Washington, covering legislation in the House and Senate, and all the activities of a Presidential inauguration. He covered most of the major U.S. trials for over two decades, the Watergate hearings, the…