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  1. Louis Wain - Wikipedia

    • Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in 1884 but was wido… See more

    Early life

    Wain was born on 5 August 1860 in Clerkenwell in London. His father, William Matthew Wain … See more

    Artistic career

    In December 1881, Wain's first drawing to be published appeared in the Christmas 1881 issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. It was a picture of bullfinches on laurel bushes, given the wrong title … See more

    BornLouis William Wain · 5 August 1860 · Clerkenwell, London, England
    Died4 July 1939 (aged 78) · Napsbury Hospital, London Colney, Hertfordshire, England
    SpouseEmily Richardson · (m. 1884; died 1887)
    Later life and death

    By the end of World War I, demand for Wain's pictures had declined significantly and, in spite of commissions from the publisher Valentine & Sons for a series of children's books, his financial situation deteriorate… See more

    Legacy

    During a radio broadcast to support the 1925 appeal for Wain, the writer H. G. Wells said of Wain: "He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and liv… See more

    Bibliography

    • All Sorts of Comical Cats. Verses by Clifton Bingham London: Ernest Nister
    • Fun at the Zoo with Verses By Clifton Bingham
    • Funny Favourites. Forty-five Pen-and-Ink Drawings by Louis Wain. London. Ernest Nister.… See more

    Further reading

    • Allderidge, Patricia (2000). The Cats of Louis Wain. Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Image. ISBN 2-909808-91-2.
    • Booth, Christine; Lund, Brian (2003). Louis Wain: A Picture Postcard Checklist. Reflections of a Bygone Age. … See more

     
  1. Louis Wain
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    Louis Wain was an English artist born in 1860 who solely painted cats. His struggles with mental illness influenced his artwork and his life.
    Louis Wain was a British artist best known for his bizarre paintings and prints of anthropomorphized cats playing golf or having tea.
    Louis Wain was an artist with a nearly singular focus: cats. He sketched, painted, and even animated these furry companions throughout the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, at a time when cats were considered nothing more than a way to keep rodents at bay.
    Louis Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens.
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    Louis Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats …

    • Nationality: British
    • Born: Aug 5, 1860
    • Place Of Birth: London, United Kingdom
    • Died: Jul 4, 1939
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    Dec 28, 2021 · So proclaimed the science-fiction writer HG Wells about the phenomenon that was Louis Wain - an illustrator who at the start of the 20th Century was a household name credited with changing...

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    Louis Wain was a British artist best known for his bizarre paintings and prints of anthropomorphized cats playing golf or having tea. “He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world,” the author H.G. …

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    Feb 12, 2023 · With a central theme of cats, Louis Wain’s art evolved over his long career. Here is an overview on the chronological development of his art.