Louis Wain was an artist who painted the most splendid cats. Many of them are endowed with human qualities, they wear clothes and do human activities yet they maintain a strong quality of feline in their expressions. He was a very popular artist in his day, and was president of the National Cat Club. He was active in various cat related charities.
An Intruder, originally uploaded by Jane Diamond.
Louis Wain had a difficult life. Like many artists he was no businessman and was frequently underpaid for his work. Often he sold the rights to a painting outright instead of getting royalties on it. When he was twenty his father died and he was left as the sole support of his mother and sisters. He was always eccentric but in his fifties he started to show signs of schizophrenia and was hospitalized in a charity hospital.
He kept up his cat artwork and the people at the hospital realized he was Louis Wain the cat artist. A collection was taken up, and he spent his last years in a nicer hospital which had a garden and cats.
His work is often studied by psychiatrists because it changed so markedly during his mental illness.
He is one of my biggest inspirations artistically. I would love to own one of his paintings! They make me so happy to look at.
A Cat Compendium: The Worlds Of Louis Wain
Louis Wain Entry on Wikipedia
Catland: The Art of Louis Wain
Henry Boxer Gallery presents the Art of Louis Wain
Louis Wain's Catland on Flickr
Cat Fancier's Association article on Louis Wain
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