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This lens aims to provide resources for feline artists. It shares information about feline art - societies, collections, books and other resources which support the stimulation and development of feline art.
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- Societies and organisations for cat artists
- Feline Art exhibitions
- Feline Artists
- Blogs by Feline Artists
- BOOKS - Cats in Art History
- Articles about Feline Art
- BOOKS Feline Art
- Blogging about Feline Art
- How to draw and paint cats
- Famous Feline Artists - Louis Wain
- Famous Feline Artists - Steinlen
- Art History - Feline Artists
- Drawings and paintings of cats in Museums and Art Galleries
- BOOKS - Feline Art in History
- Major national cat societies
- Breed standards
- Major Cat Shows
- Cat Societies - by breeds
- Stimulating the eye - images of cats and kittens
- Feline Feedback
Societies and organisations for cat artists
- S.O.F.A. The Society of Feline Artists - Cat Paintings and Portraits
- The Society of Feline Artists. SOFA - Promoting the work of the finest cat artists.
- Cat Artists - Original Feline Artwork
- These artists specialize in our favorite feline friends and offer both stock original art and prints as well as commissioned paintings and drawings of your own cat.
- Cat art from www.best-cat-art.com
- All that is best in cat art, together in one place. Cat paintings, cat prints, cat posters, cat gifts, cat calendars, cat art books.
Feline Art exhibitions
- Making a Mark: 14th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery
- The gallery will be exhibiting over 300 oils, acrylics, watercolours, pastels, works in coloured pencil and etchings - with a price range from £80 to £3,000 with the majority of working being under £750
Feline Artists
- Directors Choice Feline Pictures at Llewellyn Alexander
- Directors Choice Feline Pictures at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery - home of the Annual London Exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists
- Anne Aggett - member of SOFA and UKCPS
- Anne Aggett is a Founder Member and past President of The Society of Feline Artists, Anne works using colour pencil on Canson paper. She specialises in portraying domestic cats.
- S.O.F.A. Gallery - Jacqueline .A. Gaylard
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists. Her own two cats provide constant inspiration and an infinite supply of poses for her to include in her work.
- Martin Dexter - Cats Gallery
- Martin Dexter's cats have a very distinctive style
- The Painted Cat - Prints, Paintings and Portraits for Cat Lovers
- Fabulous, fascinating felines! Fine Art for Cat Lovers. Paintings and prints of cats and dogs from Denise Laurent, a UK based, animal artist.
- Gayle Mason Fine Art - Cats, Cats and More Cats
- Gayle Mason draws cats in pastel and coloured pencil. Galleries of different breeds of cats. Commissions, original art, limited edition giclee prints and fine art cards
- Ditz - illustrating a book of cat tales
- A Collection of Cats - A Cat Lover's Anthology by DITZ
- Bridgeman Art On Demand - cat paintings by Derold Page
- Cat paintings by Derold Page
- Bridgeman Art - Jerzy Marek
- Born in Poland in 1925, Jerzy Marek served in the British Army in Italy during World War II and came to live in London in 1948. Entirely self taught, he started to paint in oils in 1970. Recently Marek concentrated on close-ups of animals painted from memory.
- Pastels and Pencils - Feline Art by Katherine Tyrrell ASGFA
- Associate member of the Society of Feline Artists. Gallery includes pieces exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Feline Artists (SOFA)
- Pastels and Pencils - Catnapping - cat drawings by Katherine Tyrrell ASGFA
- All drawings have been done from life, come from various sketchbooks and are of cat-napping - which is my cats' version of 'still life'!
- Pat scott cats prints & canvases - Bridgeman Art On Demand
- Pat Scott specialises in commissions for flora and fauna. Her original work can be seen in many corporate collections.
- artnet | cats on artnet
- Cats on Artnet
- George Adams Gallery: Joan Brown, Cats & Dogs
- George Adams Gallery: Joan Brown, Cats & Dogs
- Nicole Jahan - Colored pencils drawings of cats
- Nicole Jahan : paintings and drawings of cats
- Cat Paintings of Feline Artist Denise Laurent
- Beautiful Cat paintings! Beautiful and lifelike paintings of cats from Denise Laurent, a UK based, London artist.
- Gallery of Fine Art Giclee Prints - Cat Prints and Beach Scenes By Artist SARA BUTT
- Sara is a member of the Society of Feline Artists
- Mew Gallery: Cats by Thora Clyne
- Mew Gallery: Cats - Paintings and drawings of cats. Commissions welcome.
- S.O.F.A. Gallery - Marian Forster
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
Marian Forster: her stylized Siamese, painted on Indian paper in pen and watercolour, are full of character and wicked humour. - S.O.F.A. Gallery Paul Dyson
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
- S.O.F.A. Gallery - Sarais B . Crawshaw
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
The grace and beauty of cats of all sizes provides the inspiration for much of my work, whether the powerful big cats, or those who share my home. - Julie Hockin Art
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
Living and working in inspirational Cornwall, her birthplace, Julie lives along with her beloved ginger moggie Flossie, who has starred many times in her artworks for Hockin and Roberts Ltd. - S.O.F.A. Gallery - Christine Lester
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
- S.O.F.A. Gallery - Marion Pritchard
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
- S.O.F.A. Gallery - Celia Pike
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists.
Celia Pike studied at St Martins School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. Her paintings and prints of cats have been reproduced by many art publishers. - S.O.F.A. Gallery - Astrid Ruddick
- Member of The Society of Feline Artists. Astrid's detailed paintings are executed in acrylic medium on paper. Many works feature Siamese cats, for which she has a particular passion.
Blogs by Feline Artists
- The Painted Cat - Cats On The Easel
- Cats On The Easel is Denise Laurent's blog. It's the space for sketches, paintings in progress, news and events about painting cats.
- The S.O.F.A. Blog :: Main Page
- The official blog of The Society of Feline Artists (S.O.F.A. to its friends)
- Fur in the Paint
- Gayle Mason's art Journal reflecting on the struggle to produce animal art, which is both 'up close and personal' and captures the essence of each animal portrayed. It highlights and discusses the development of new work in pencil, pastel and acrylic.
- Making A Mark - feline art
- This is the link to all blog posts labelled Feline Art on "Making A Mark"
- bigcatheads ~ the blog
- Bruce Andrew Mckay aka BAM creates big bright fun paintings of cats - and writes about his paintings on his blog.
BOOKS - Cats in Art History
books on Amazon
The Cat in Art
"The Cat in Art" is both full of surprises and hauntingly familiar, as cats play and pounce and sleep and purr their way through 170 great art masterpieces from the ancient world to the present. What cats represent to us in life, they bring to art: elegance and grace; domestic tranquility; symbols of sensuality and mischievousness. Here are paintings by Van Eyck, Raphael, Leonardo, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Chardin, Gainsborough, Manet, Renoir, Bonnard, Gauguin, Matisse, Balthus, Picasso, Warhol, and many others. Sometimes the cats are the stars of the work, and sometimes they are working their magic from the corners of roomsin which case both the whole work and a detail showing the cat are illustrated. Stefano Zuffis charming text tells the reader what it all means, from the feline goddesses of the ancients, to the devilish cats of the Middle Ages, to the indispensable companions of our own time.
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Cats in the Louvre
Cats have never been short of admirers, and the world's greatest artists have often paid tribute to the feline form. The department of Egyptian antiquities at the Louvre abounds in representations of the cat-goddess Bastet. Likewise, the cat has a much-felt presence in the museum's collection of paintings, sitting with aristocratic ladies in intimate domestic scenes such as those depicted by Boilly or Fragonard, or showing their mischievous nature, such as the cat sprawled on the sumptuously laid table in Chardin's La Raie. This beautiful volume is packed with artworks from all of the Louvre's many departments. Each painting or sculpture is shown in its entirety and in detail, focusing on the feline presence. The artworks are accompanied by a short, illuminating commentary, and introduced by a preface in which the author draws upon his personal reflections on the irresistible cat. Cats in the Louvre provides a delightfully unusual tour through the most visited gallery in the world, and invites the reader to engage in a fresh way with some of the perennially inspiring themes of the works housed there. Art lovers will see the works in a new light, and cat lovers will simply be enchanted.
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Articles about Feline Art
- The Guardian - Review: The Cat in Art by Stefano Zuffi | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
- The lion's sneeze
Stefano Zuffi's The Cat in Art looks at how depicting the feline has engrossed artists for millennia. Hooray, says Richard Cork
BOOKS Feline Art
books on Amazon
Catnip: Artful Felines from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From The Metropolitan Museum of Art's vast holdings comes this charming collection of fine art felines. Cats of all types provide the artistic mews for the gallery of images presented here, all perfectly paired with quips about cats from some of our most famous writers, thinkers, and humorists, among them Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, and Gertrude Stein. The face of a cat superimposed on an artist's self-portrait is accompanied by Mark Twain's dry wit: "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." Cats have been captivating artists and thinkers for centuries, and nowhere is it more apparent than in this heartwarming homage--from an ancient Egyptian statue of a cat, to a medieval illumination of a tiny cat sharpening its claws on the manuscript, to a Japanese painting of a cat patiently stalking a spider. This gift of a book, filled with the most exquisite portraits of cats doing what they do best, is guaranteed to enchant.
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The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield
The Cat and the Human Imagination is a fascinating historical survey of the changing cultural attitudes towards cats and the myriad ways that they have been depicted in literature and art. Feline images have permeated civilization since the time of the ancient Egyptians, and during this time the status of the cat has changed dramatically. The book examines the changing images-- fertility goddess, sly little predator, agent of Satan, avenging witness, aristocrat, friend, spirit of the home, bloodthirsty killer, seductive female--and relates them to the contexts in which they arose. It also analyzes how human attitudes towards cats seem to have evolved in parallel with attitudes towards animals, towards authority, and towards gender.Western literature and visual art have reflected this change, developing from bare sketches to richly varied expressions of feline personality and human interaction with cats.
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Blogging about Feline Art
- Pintings Prints and Stuff: cats in art and a monotype of a cat
- Vivien Blackburn provides an overview, on her blog, of different images of the cat in art over the centuries
- Making a Mark: How to make it easy for people to link to you - and how to sketch a cat!
- Two topics today about how to do things quickly:
1. How to make it easy for people to link to a blog post you've written - and send visitors to your blog
2. How to sketch a cat in 30 seconds
How to draw and paint cats
- Drawing and Painting Cats
- Gayle Mason shares information about how to draw and paint cats.
This site lens includes links to lessons in drawing cats, artists who blog about cat art, art materials, art reference books, books about cats,exhibitions including feline art forums for animal artists and societies for feline art and
Famous Feline Artists - Louis Wain
Cat artist extraordinaire
- Louis Wain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Louis Wain (1860-1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. ...
- LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939)
- Large range of images from the Chris Beetles Gallery
- Neuroscience Art Gallery: Art by Psychotics. Louis Wain
- They have been painted by Louis Wain, an European artist in the beginning of this century. Since Wain was young, he used to draw and paint cats for ...
- Mind Hacks: The false progression of Louis Wain
- The five pictures are by Victorian artist Louis Wain who painted cats through the whole of his life and continued through periods of intense psychosis. ...
- Louis Wain Kitten Book
- Louis Wain Kitten Book. by Louis Wain n.a.. Rosetta Museum Store! ... her wonderful translation of "Louis Wain Kitten Book" into Italian. ...
Famous Feline Artists - Steinlen
- Théophile Steinlen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Born in Lausanne, Steinlen studied at the local University before taking a job as a designer trainee at a textile mill in Mulhouse in eastern France. ...
- Two Cats, 1894 - Theophile Alexandre Steinlen - Bridgeman Art On ...
- Two Cats, 1894 by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen. Fine Art Prints from Bridgeman Art On Demand. Bespoke. Affordable. Quality.
- Theophile Alexandre Steinlen Online
- Theophile Alexandre Steinlen [Swiss-born French Art Nouveau Painter and Printmaker, 1859-1923] Guide to pictures of works by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen in ...
- Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
- He was very found of animals, especially cats, and often included them in his posters. Steinlen's cats proved so popular, in fact, that they became a ...
- Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss/French), 1859-1923: Featured ...
- Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - Two Cats and Re-Study (Works on Paper (Drawings ... Steinlen loved cats. At the beginning of his career, he drew them, ...
Art History - Feline Artists
- Arthur Heyer prints & canvases - Bridgeman Art On Demand
- White cats
- Tate Collection | Young Woman Holding a Black Cat by Gwen John
- Gwen John 1876-1939 © Estate of Gwen John. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2002 Young Woman Holding a Black Cat, circa 1920-5. Oil on canvas
- Gwen John - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Gwen John painted many cats - includes a watercolour of a cat
- Tate Collection | Cat by Gwen John
- Gwen John 1876-1939 © Estate of Gwen John.
- Tate Collection | A Sleeping Cat by Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Joseph Mallord William Turner - 1775-1851. A Sleeping Cat circa 1796-7
Chalk and watercolour on paper - Tate Collection | Wild Cat by Dame Elisabeth Frink
- Dame Elisabeth Frink 1930-1993 © Frink Estate
Wild Cat 1970. Lithograph on paper, image: 519 x 660 mm on paper, print - Tate Collection | Girl and Cat by John Russell
- John Russell 1744-1807 Girl and Cat 1791 Pastel on paper support: 587 x 445 mm on paper
- Manet - 'Woman with a Cat ('La Femme au chat')'
- The sitter is Suzanne Leenhoff, whom Manet married in 1863, but had known since 1849, when she started to give piano lessons to the Manet family. The family cat, Zizi, was drawn many times by the artist, and also appears in watercolour sketches in his letters sent from Bellevue.
- National Gallery: Judith Leyster (1609 - 1660) - A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel
- It has recently been suggested that this painting serves as a warning against foolish and mischievous behaviour. The boy has used the small eel to entice the cat into his grasp and then withholds the bait, while the girl teases the cat further by pulling its tail. Judging by its extended claws the cat is about to scratch the boy. The picture thus seems to allude to the Dutch saying: 'He who plays with cats gets scratched', meaning he who looks for trouble will get it. It was common in Dutch 17th-century painting to use children in order to point out the foolish behaviour of adults.
- National Gallery: PERRONNEAU, Jean-Baptiste (1715 - 1783) A Girl with a Kitten
- The girl, who has not been identified, has been posed by the artist, and the kitten by the girl; the apparent naturalness of the portrait is dependent on artifice. A cat is sometimes included in portraits of children as a symbol of the wildness of nature intruding upon the innocence of childhood.
Drawings and paintings of cats in Museums and Art Galleries
- Tate Collection | Young Woman Holding a Black Cat by Gwen John
- Estate of Gwen John. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2002 Young Woman Holding a Black Cat
circa 1920-5 Oil on canvas support: 460 x 298 x 17 mm / frame: 695 x 550 x 102 mm painting
BOOKS - Feline Art in History
books on Amazon
Steinlen Cats (Dover Art Library)
These 66 drawings and 8 picture-stories represent the best of Steinlen's scattered, rare cat depictions, available nowhere else. Artists will learn cat dynamics from the spare, expressive lines.
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Louis Wain - The Man Who Drew Cats: The Man who drew Cats
Perhaps the best loved illustrator of comic cats of the twentieth century. Born in 1860 Wain became a household name for his cat illustrations in the 1890s.
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The Cats Gallery of Western Art
Susan Herbert's innovative and witty feline renderings of famous masterpieces have won her a large admiring public. Her first book was The Cats Gallery of Western Art, in which Frans Hals's Laughing Cavalier, da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Botticelli's Birth of Venus, among many other classics of the world's great museums, were presented with cats serving as models. This was followed by a similar work, The Cats History of Western Art, which featured feline versions of thirty-two well-known paintings, including another beloved Botticelli masterpiece, Primavera, a dramatic detail from the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, and a number of popular Impressionist pictures. As both these books, which appeal to cat lovers of all ages, have been out of print for several years, Thames & Hudson now takes the opportunity to offer them together in a bumper paperback volume that will introduce Herbert's unique paintings to a new generation of book buyers.
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Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life
Drawing on early pet handbooks and treatises on animal intelligence, Rubin explores nineteenth-century opinions on cats and dogs and compares handbook illustrations to the animals shown in Impressionist works. He also provides fascinating information on pet ownership and on the place of Impressionism in the long history of animal painting.
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Major national cat societies
- Welcome to the UK Cat Fancy
- The UK Governing Council of the Cat Fancy founded in 1910. The GCCF is the primary governing body of the Cat Fancy in the United Kingdom
- the feline equivalent of the Kennel Club. - The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA)
- The world's largest registry of pedigree cats.
An informative insight into the world of pedigreed cats - with breeder search, breed profiles, top cat photos, cat show schedule, health articles
Breed standards
- GCCF Amendments to Standard Of Points since 1.6.05
- The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy
Amendments to GCCF Standards of Points since 1st June 2005
Major Cat Shows
Places to find your next subject, check out breeds or maybe exhibit
- Supreme Cat Show (UK)
- Supreme Cat Show. The GCCF Supreme Cat Show - the feline equivalent of Crufts.
- National Cat Club
- Mr. Harrison-Weir founded the National Cat Club 1887 and was its first President and Show Manager. Then came the very famous artist Louis Wain as President and Show Manager and Judge.
Cat Societies - by breeds
- GCCF Affiliated Cat Clubs
- A list of GCCF Affiliated Cat Clubs.
- British Shorthair Cat Club
- British Shorthair Cat Club website, members can list their kittens, studs,with a new 'wanted' page for the special requests. All adverts are free, in addition news of our annual Championship show.
- The Balinese & Siamese Cat Club
- Established in 1988 for owners and fans of Balinese and Siamese cats
- The Club for all siamese cats
- The Club was formed in 1901 and celebrated
its centenary on 16th January 2001. There are now many Siamese cat clubs, this is the original one catering exclusively for siamese cats - Colourpointed British Shorthair Cat Club
- Established in 1991, the Colourpointed British Shorthair Cat Club is a Breed Club representing the British Shorthair Colourpointed, Chocolate and Lilac Related Series Cat within the UK.
- The Bengal Cat Club
- The Bengal Cat Club is affiliated to The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy and promotes the welfare and well-being of Bengal Cats in the U.K.
- Burmese Cat Club UK
- The Burmese Cat Club was formed in 1955 and is one of the largest cat clubs in the UK with a national and international membership. We exist to safeguard the wellbeing and the purity of the breed, and to encourage a wider appreciation of the unique qualities of Burmese cats.
- Welcome To Progressive Ragdoll Breed Cat Club
- ragdoll kittens, ragdoll breeders, british ragdoll, ragdolls in the uk
- Main Coon Breed Society
- We are a Club affiliated to the GCCF in the UK. We are dedicated to the standard of points and the welfare of all Maine Coons. Our membership is open to anyone who would like to take part in keeping this breed pure and promoting it to others
- The Main Coon cat club
- The Club holds various social functions, an annual "virtual" photographic cat show and is heavily involved in the frequent Maine Coon Breed Seminars organised by the GCCF Maine Coon Breed Advisory Committee.
- BIRMAN CAT CLUB(United Kingdom)
- Founded 1969
- The Norwegian Forest Cat Club UK
- The Norwegian Forest Cat is truly a natural breed and really does originate from Norway. The exact origins of the Forest Cats will never be precisely established, but one thing is certain: NFCs can be found in Norwegian folklore, where it is said that these cats were the family pets of the Vikings.
- Oriental Cat Association - Welcome
- Covering a variety of oriental short-hairs
Cat Humour
Sites which give you a reminder of all the reasons we love cats
- Guidelines for Cats
- Guidelines for Cats - how to live with humans and in their houses - and what to do about doors, chairs, rugs etc
- tiddles.co.uk - tim's badly drawn cat web site
- badly drawn cats - that's it really
- CatStuff: The Mapping of a Cat's Brain
- CatStuff: thousands of domestic cat graphics for web sites, a huge library of information about cats, games, much more.
Stimulating the eye - images of cats and kittens
- The Queen - Rate My Kitten
- Rate My Kitten - check out which images of cats and kittens ones people like best and least.
- Funny Cat Pictures
- Funny Cat Pictures - with Daily Updates of the interwebs best funny cat pictures.
Making A Mark
My Art Blog
Writing about: - Making marks with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Creating new drawings and paintings - Influences on developing both artwork and art careers - Interviews with artists - Information about resources for artists and art lovers
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