The Most Powerful Painting I Have Ever Seen… And How it Freed Someone From Prison

by Tony Newman on March 18, 2014

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NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—March 18, 2014. My good friend and colleague, Anthony Papa, found his passion for art while serving a 15-to-life sentence in Sing-Sing. Papa painted hundreds of pieces while behind bars, but one of them stands out and is the most powerful painting I have ever seen.