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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.
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.
Jun 26, 2022 · Louis Wain the artist lived a life equally filled with art and illness. Louis Wain’s art was known for one subject: cats, such as his famous cat painting, Kaleidoscope Cats I (1931). Later in life, Louis William Wain was institutionalized after battling mental illness.
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...
Louis Wain (1860–1939) was an artist and illustrator who achieved great fame in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for his drawings of cats, but his story is also a sad one of mental...
Jun 3, 2024 · The curious career of the illustrator Louis Wain tells the story of how our feline friends came in from the alley and took up their place at the hearth. By Rebecca Mead. June 3, 2024.
Nov 5, 2021 · The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Directed by Will Sharpe. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones. English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.
Louis Wain was a British artist best known for his bizarre paintings and prints of anthropomorphized cats playing golf or having tea. View Louis Wain’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
From the 1880s until the outbreak of the first world war, the ‘Louis Wain cat’ was hugely popular. Appearing in vast quantities in prints, books, magazines, post-cards and annuals, Wain’s cats are to be found engaging in every form of human activity - from playing cricket, digging up roads, and riding bicycles, to parading the latest ...
Sep 23, 2021 · The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception...
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