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Ralph Papa has been drawing and painting since his early childhood living in Manhattan on East 105th Street. First lessons in drawing and painting were from his father, and later from TV artist John Gnagy. In the 1960's after developing his own style, he studied art and architecture at Queens College and City College of New York and painted under Henry Gasser at the Art Students League. Papa worked primarily in New York City and exhibited and sold his paintings in Greenwich Village. Through the 1960's and 70's, his paintings were of larger than life faces conjuring a pensive mood with feelings of isolation and loneliness. In the past 20 years, Papa has lightened up as seen in his studio paintings while working in Tehran, Iran in 1978. Again later in the 1990’s he shifted to plein-air painting on-location in the New York Hudson Valley, the Long Island Hamptons and Palm Beach Florida. Spanning over 40 years, Papa's paintings present an evolved style that reflects his admiration and respect for nature and individuality.
Papa is a member of the Garrison Art Center, the Delray Art League and the Professional Art Guild at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. He paints both in New York and Southeast Florida and teaches drawing and painting at the Cultural Arts Center in Delray Beach, Florida. His works are in public and private collections in the United States and Canada.
