Mallen, Edward Illustrator. While not much is known about the early life of Edward Mallen, he is remembered as an artist and frequenter of Pfaff's. William Winter identifies &quot;Edward F. Mullen&quot; as one of the artists who frequented Pfaff&rsquo;s Cave along with Launt Thompson, George Boughton, and Sol Eytinge, Jr. (<cite>Old Friends</cite> 66, 88). Walt Whitman, a close friend of his, is also quoted as saying that &quot;Mullin&quot; was &quot;among the leaders&quot; at Pfaff&rsquo;s (Bohan 134; T. Donaldson 208-209). Fellow artist and Pfaff&rsquo;s regular Elihu Vedder remembers that Mullin&rsquo;s landlady characterized him as a &quot;holy terror,&quot; a man who &quot;was anything but neat, except in the matter of whiskey: he always took that neat&quot; (<I>Confessions</i> 218). Vedder describes Mullin as being &quot;ever on the verge of a fight, [but] I never remember to have seen him in one&quot; like his pugilistic friend Fitz James O&rsquo;Brien (219). Mullen produced illustrations of “the very best grade of comic art” for the pages of <cite>Vanity Fair</cite> (Seitz 79). In addition, he contributed illustrations to the <i>Saturday Press,</i> the weekly journal published by the Pfaffs (Bohan 135). In fact, according to Bohan, he devised a new banner for the front page of the journal, which aligned more with the content published within it and promoted Bohemians' support for the arts (Bohan 148). According to Thomas Gunn, Mallen shared a desire with other Pfaffians including Fitz-James O'Brien to become an officer during the Civil War (Gunn, vol. 16, 224). Mallen did in fact become part of O'Brien's regiment, as Gunn recounted in his diaries (Gunn, vol. 18, 118). Mallen's connection to his Pfaff&rsquo;s fellows continued to be strong. William Winter mentions that Mullen attended Fitz-James O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s funeral along with Frank Wood and Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Winter refers to Mullen as “the quaint, original artist of <cite>Vanity Fair</cite>” and states that they all rode in the coach together (“Sketch of O&rsquo;Brien” xxvii). By 1865, Mallen had returned to New York after contributing to the war effort. During this time, he contributed illustrations to Charles Farrar Browne's work, <i>Artemus Ward: His Travels,</i> which was a tribute to the <i>Vanity Fair</i> editor. In the later part of his career, Mallen's work appeared in a collection of artists' work called <i>Beyond the Mississippi</i> (1869). Following the Chicago fire in 1871, Mullen drew illustrations for the book <i>Mrs. Leary's Cow: A Legend of Chicago</i> (1872) (http://idesweb.bc.edu/becker/artists/mullen). In addition to his interest in comic art and engraving, Mullen possessed a talent for oil painting (&quot;Art Notes&quot; 7). His work is remembered alongside the productions of Eytinge, Launt Thompson, George H. Boughton, Wilson Fisk, and Frank Bellew. While an exact date of Mallen's death is unknown, Gay Wilson Allen wrote about a toast given by Whitman during his 1881 visit with Pfaff, during which he toasted a departed Pfaffian name "Mullin," which could likely have been Edward Mallen, his close friend from Pfaff's (Allen 494). References & Biographical Resources\n"; <div class="view view-works-related-to-people view-id-works_related_to_people view-display-id-default"> <div class="view-content"> <ul id="views-bootstrap-works-related-to-people-default"class="views-bootstrap-list-group views-view-list-group"> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55726" about="/node/55726" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55726">Allen, Gay Wilson. <em>The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman</em>. New York: MacMillan, 1955.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Mallen, possibly referred to here as "Mullin" may be one of the departed Pfaffians Whitman writes about toasting with Pfaff during his 1881 visit (494).</p> <p>Source: Whitman - CW 5:21</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 494]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="58939" about="/node/58939" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/58939">"Art: Art Notes." <em>The Round Table</em>, September 19, 1865, 7.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>The article states that Mallen, already an accomplished draughtsman, is embarking on oil painting.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 7]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="78285" about="/node/78285" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/78285">Bohan, Ruth L. 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"Diaries, Vol. 13." <em>Diaries, Vol. 13</em>(1860).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60724" about="/node/60724" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60724">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 14." <em>Diaries, Vol. 14</em>(1860).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60732" about="/node/60732" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60732">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 15." <em>Diaries, Vol. 15</em>(1861).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60716" about="/node/60716" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60716">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 16." <em>Diaries, Vol. 16</em>(1861).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60725" about="/node/60725" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60725">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 17." <em>Diaries, Vol. 17</em>(1861).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60711" about="/node/60711" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60711">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 18." <em>Diaries, Vol. 18</em>(1861).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60718" about="/node/60718" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60718">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 19." <em>Diaries, Vol. 19</em>(1862).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60726" about="/node/60726" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60726">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 21." <em>Diaries, Vol. 21</em>(1862).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60727" about="/node/60727" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60727">Gunn, Thomas Butler. "Diaries, Vol. 22." <em>Diaries, Vol. 22</em>(1863).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60177" about="/node/60177" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60177">Karbiener, Karen. "Whitman at Pfaff&#039;s: Personal Space, a Public Place, and the Boundary-Breaking Poems of &lt;cite&gt;Leaves of Grass&lt;/cite&gt; (1860)." In <em>Literature of New York</em>, edited by Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55709" about="/node/55709" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55709">Lalor, Eugene T. "The Literary Bohemians of New York City in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Ph.D. Dissertation, St. John&#039;s University, 1977.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Described by Lalor as a "non-literary artist," perhaps a painter or a sculptor (3).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 3]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55387" about="/node/55387" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55387">O&#039;Brien, Fitz-James. "The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O&#039;Brien. Collected and Edited, with a Sketch of the Author, by William Winter." In <em>The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O&#039;Brien. Collected and Edited, with a Sketch of the Author, by William Winter</em>, edited by William Winter. Boston: J.R. Osgood and Co., 1881.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Winter mentions that Mallen attended O'Brien's funeral, along with Frank Wook and Thomas Bailey Aldrich (xxvii).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: xxvii]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55766" about="/node/55766" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55766">Parry, Albert. "Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America." <em>Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America</em>(1933).</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Parry calls him Edward T. Mullen here, and mentions that O'Brien's efforts to recruit in New York led to the publication of his "friendly cartoon" in <cite>Vanity Fair</cite>.Parry reprints the cartoon on p.54.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 53, 54 (ill)]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="56988" about="/node/56988" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/56988">Quelqu&#039;un [Winter, William]. "Dramatic Feuilleton." <em>New-York Saturday Press</em>, November 17, 1860, 3.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content"></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="58856" about="/node/58856" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/58856">Seitz, Don Carlos. <em>Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography</em>. NY: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1919.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Seitz names Wood, Mullen [Mallen], and Shanly as staff members at <cite>Vanity Fair</cite> who were inspirations for characters in Artemus Ward's <cite>Woshy-Boshy</cite>. Mallen is described as a comic artist who worked with Artemus Ward: His work is remembered alongside the productions of Eytinge, Launt Thompson, George H. Boughton, Wilson Fisk, and Frank Bellew. Don Carlos Seitz contends that “to such associates Artemus Ward came as one to the manner born. The evenings were gay with converse and many libations of Pfaff’s brew” (99). The acquaintance with Artemus Ward produced rich comic fruit; Seitz named Wood, Mullen, and Shanly as the staff members at Vanity Fair who inspired the minor characters in Artemus Ward’s Woshy-Boshy (90). </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 79, 90, 99, 183, 282, 322-326]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55325" about="/node/55325" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55325">Vedder, Elihu. <em>The Digressions of V., Written for his Own Fun and that of His Friends, by Elihu Vedder; Containing the Quaint Legends of his Infancy, an Account of his Stay in Florence, the Garden of Lost Opportunities, Return Home on the Track of Columbus, His Struggle</em>. Boston &amp; New York: Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co., 1910.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Characterizing Mullin's art as "forgotten gems" which once adorned the pages of <cite>Vanity Fair</cite>, Vedder dryly observes, "It may be imagined that Mullin's hand was unsteady, but by concentrating his will and taking good aim he managed to hit the spot every time; and being a good artist this very unsteadiness gave a delightful freedom and a style of his own to his drawings which were veritable little gems and offered the greatest contrast to the drawings of all around him" (220). </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 218-220, 241]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="55290" about="/node/55290" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/55290">Winter, William. <em>Old Friends; Being Literary Recollections of Other Days</em>. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>He is listed by Winter as one of the artists who frequented Pfaff's Cave.He is refered to here as "Edward F. Mullen" (66).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: 66,88]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <article data-history-node-id="60047" about="/node/60047" class="node node--type-work node--view-mode-bibliography-link"> <div class="node__content"> <a href="/node/60047">Winter, William. <em>The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O&#039;Brien</em>. New York: J. R. Osgood, 1881.</a> </div> </article> <p class="list-group-item-text"><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-note"><div class="field-content"><p>Winter mentions in a footnote that Mullen attended Fitz-James O'Brien's funeral along with Frank Wood and Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Winter refers to Mullen as "the quaint, original artist of <cite>Vanity Fair</cite>" and states that they all rode in the coach together (xxvii).</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-mention-pages"><div class="field-content">[pages: xxvii]</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-edit-node"><span class="field-content"></span></div></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div>