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Can any body please help me? I have been searching for drawings by Louis Wain during his so called schizo period while in the hospital, the wall-paper cats ect.
Floating around the net, that I can find are about 7 or eight samples of his crazy cats and I want to see more, much more, because apparently he made many. I even went as far as buying a book (65$) entitled "The Cats of Louis Wain" It was advertised as being collections of a nurse who worked at the hospital during Louis's stay. The book contained no such art, just Wains pre-crazy cats.
I even wrote to a museum in England that professed to have a large collection of Wains crazy cat art. They sent me a link that contained the same Wain Crazy cats that have been circulating for years.
So please, can any body help me find a large body of Wains cats that he would have drawn during his fifteen years in the hospital?????
Floating around the net, that I can find are about 7 or eight samples of his crazy cats and I want to see more, much more, because apparently he made many. I even went as far as buying a book (65$) entitled "The Cats of Louis Wain" It was advertised as being collections of a nurse who worked at the hospital during Louis's stay. The book contained no such art, just Wains pre-crazy cats.
I even wrote to a museum in England that professed to have a large collection of Wains crazy cat art. They sent me a link that contained the same Wain Crazy cats that have been circulating for years.
So please, can any body help me find a large body of Wains cats that he would have drawn during his fifteen years in the hospital?????
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Re: NEED WAIN HELP
Mon, March 12, 2007 - 6:31 AMi recommend checking this site, one of the best for out of print/used books:
www.alibris.com
jay
"it's all about the hookup"
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Re: NEED WAIN HELP
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 2:56 AMhi, i have a couple photos of Wain's work from that time period that i would be happy to share with you. but i just joined this site and am not sure how to post pictures in the reply section here. if someone can explain how to do that, i will gladly post my pics up of Louis' later works when he became ill. Cheers!
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Re: NEED WAIN HELP
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 7:41 AMthanks! just click on the gallery image on this tribe's main page, then at the bottom of the image listing is a simple upload form. there's also room for title/description which you can edit after posting (or i'll edit for ya)
do you have any of his work framed? any original prints from way back when?
my dad has a framed print of 'the fire of the mind agitates the atmosphere' - posted in this tribe's gallery ;)
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Re: NEED WAIN HELP
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 8:49 PMthank you for the info on how to post pics to this group. per request, i just added 3 photos of Louis Wain's later works. i hope you guys enjoy them :)
oh how i wish i had some of Louis' original works! but unfortunately, his original pieces are way out of my budget. though of course one day i hope to own an original piece of his. the closest i have is a limited edition print of a piece called "The Sad Cat". my friend got it for me, the cat in the painting looks a lot like my own cat, Abbey. and i have 2 reprinted postcards of his as well.
that's so cool that your dad has a framed print of "the fire of the mind agitates the atmosphere" - that is a very powerful piece of his. that reminds me, i just learned recently that a few years back, there was a play about Louis Wain! i believe the play was called "The Fire of the Mind". it was at a small theatre group in Canada, and it got rave reviews. i would have loved to have seen that!
anway, nice to be part of this tribe! :) almost no one i know has even heard of Louis Wain, so it's nice to be amongst fellow fans of his.
Cheers!
- Jane
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Re: posting photos
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 7:41 AMJust above the list of topics, click on the "photos" button. This will take you to the photos only area. Near the bottom of a page is a "post photo" button on the right, I think. Click that and it will havea standard looking upload page.
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Mon, July 2, 2007 - 8:54 PMthank you as well for the info on how to post pics to the group.
and thanks for your comment on my pic too. even whe i was a kid, people told me i had feline-like features, i guess maybe it's because i'm a Leo? ;) -
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