{"id":245114,"date":"2025-10-23T03:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T03:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:40:03","slug":"painting-returns-to-willard-library-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245114\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting returns to Willard Library 20 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; A painting that disappeared for more than 20 years has made it\u2019s way to Willard Library, and it now has a special twist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local artist David Earl Jones painted the Willard Library building to be auctioned off to benefit a local non-profit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say it later resurfaced in storage at the Evansville Museum, and was eventually returned to the artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That\u2019s when he decided to expand the canvas and add more details that represent Willard Library, including the Grey Lady.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you want to see the new take on this painting, it\u2019s hanging in the main staircase at Willard Library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; A painting that disappeared for more than 20 years has made it\u2019s way to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-245114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}