He was the cat’s meow. One hundred years ago, Louis Wain transformed the humble feline from vermin-catching critter to beloved beast with his whimsical drawings of anthropomorphized cats.

Louis Wain's drawings of cats made him a celebrated figure "He had made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like ...

A Louis Wain illustration of cats singing carols Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 1886, a little-known artist named Louis Wain contributed a rollicking illustration of festive cats to the ...

English artist Louis Wain drew a lot of cats. Like, a lot of them; estimates range from somewhere around 150,000 to more than 250,000. Unsurprisingly, Wain cared for several cats himself.

His passions were electricity, his wife (once his family’s governess) and cats, his subject of choice. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, directed by Will Sharpe, now at the Toronto ...

Louis Wain, famous for his cat artwork, lived for more than 20 years in Westgate-on-Sea where he famously took his cats for walks along the promenade. He became a household name during his time in ...

Even if audiences aren’t familiar with the artist Louis Wain, chances are they have seen his distinctive colorful artwork. His favorite subject was cats, which he painted and drew in in ...

A new film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and an exhibition are bringing Louis Wain back into the spotlight - but there’s more to his life story than rebranding cats The Standard's journalism is ...

A forthcoming film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, is reviving the reputation of a popular illustrator known for depictions of cats that captivated Victorian ...

“Why cats?” This innocent question arrives midway through “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” hovering over it like a mischievous smile. For some of us, of course, the only answer to this ...

He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." So proclaimed the science-fiction writer HG Wells ...