Pierre-Auguste Renoir – impressionist and cat lover.
categories: Paintings
Archive of ‘Paintings’ category
Anonymous cat with his or her monkey, colibri and artist Frida Kahlo
categories: Cats & artists, Paintings
Lucian Freud
categories: Paintings
Melinda Josie
categories: Paintings
Paintings by Melinda Josie.
via http://melindajosie.blogspot.se/ & http://melindajosie.com/
Percy and Blanche.
categories: Paintings
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy painted 1970-1971 by David Hockney.
Despite the title, this i NOT Percy in the painting. but one of the other owners of the Clark couple named Blanche. Hockney thought Percy a better suited name for the title.
The Clark couple and the real Percy.
Ella, Lilly, Banjo & some unknown kittens
categories: Cats & writers, Paintings
Banjo & Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet. Most famous for the poem Solitude, written in 1883, which opening lines are:
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, / Weep, and you weep alone.”
“Ella Wheeler Wilcox” by Lilly Martin Spencer.
The butterfly and the cat by Lilly Martin Spencer 1875
Louis Wain’s cats
categories: Cats & artists, Paintings
Louis & Peter at the drawing table 1890
Louis Wain (1860-1939) made a name for himself as an artist, an illustrator of childrens book and postcards.
In the early 1920’s he started showing signs of schizofrenia and was admitted to a mental hospital where he continued to paint cats, although in a slightly different manner, until his death.
Moroccan bookstore cat
categories: Paintings
