{"id":5885,"date":"2009-08-11T03:16:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T02:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2010-10-09T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T13:42:15","slug":"louis-wain-at-nunnington-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/11\/louis-wain-at-nunnington-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Wain at Nunnington Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbeetles.com\/gallery\/exhibition_detail.php?id=1056\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wain.jpg\" alt=\"wain.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mother of Triplets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone in the vicinity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/main\/w-vh\/w-visits\/w-findaplace\/w-nunningtonhall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nunnington Hall<\/a> in North Yorkshire over the next month has the opportunity to view and\u2014if you&#8217;re wealthy enough\u2014buy some pictures by Victorian cat artist Louis Wain (1860\u20131939). Wain is famously &#8220;The Cat Artist Who Went Mad&#8221; (as Chris Beetles&#8217; gallery site puts it) and that piece of knowledge always comes to the fore when looking at his anthropomorphised felines with their huge eyes and often scowling expressions. The excellent Beetles gallery has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbeetles.com\/gallery\/exhibition_detail.php?id=1056\" target=\"_blank\">an overview of the works on display<\/a> at Nunnington. For the really eccentric stuff, however, you&#8217;ll have to go <a href=\"http:\/\/seancasio.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/15\/louis-wain\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Wain at Nunnington Hall runs until September 13, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilitu.com\/catland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catland: The art of Louis Wain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/05\/marbled-papers\/\" target=\"_self\">Marbled papers<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/06\/11\/a-madmens-museum\/\">A Madmen\u2019s Museum<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/23\/the-art-of-franz-xaver-messerschmidt-1736-1783\/\">The art of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736\u20131783<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mother of Triplets. Anyone in the vicinity of Nunnington Hall in North Yorkshire over the next month has the opportunity to view and\u2014if you&#8217;re wealthy enough\u2014buy some pictures by Victorian cat artist Louis Wain (1860\u20131939). Wain is famously &#8220;The Cat Artist Who Went Mad&#8221; (as Chris Beetles&#8217; gallery site puts it) and that piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/11\/louis-wain-at-nunnington-hall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Louis Wain at Nunnington Hall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,48],"tags":[1838,631],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-illustrators","tag-franz-xaver-messerschmidt","tag-louis-wain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1wV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}