#cats in art

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Caturday 🐱:

“BROWN TABBY AND ORANGE TABBY SHORT-HAIRED #CATS. (From a Painting by W. Luker, Jun.)” Plate 8 in The Book of the Cat by Frances Simpson (London, 1903) via Biodiversity Heritage Library

[jareckiworld]

Tomoo Inagaki (1902-1980) — Cat in the Sunset [woodblock, 1969]

[rebeccawangart]

Chiyo (2024)

This unique kitty is Chiyo (@chiyopurrs )! She is a brown tabby and white cat with a very unique piebald marking pattern. I found her account a few months ago and fell in love with her unique style. Then I had the honor of creating her portrait in my signature vibrant colorful style! Her portrait was painted with acrylics on an 8x10 inch stretched canvas.

[madeleineengland]

"The Black Cat beyond the Pink Curtain". 2024. Watercolor on paper. By Jan L. Waldron

[jun-hug]

Wherever the fate calls us next, I know everything will be just fine. Because you and Mother Nature got my back. You're both my home, because home can be a person ...or a cat

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[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767–1849), "The Hard Word"

[weepingwidar]

Seline Burn (Swiss, 1995) - Rosy Gloom (2022)

[geritsel]

Norbertine Bresslern Roth - Angora cat, color linocut, 1920s.

[bobbole]

Marisol Muro

[ladamania]

“On the 6th Day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a gift to the late Emperor, received from the hands of Minamoto no Kuwashi.

The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. It has an air about it, similar to Kanno. Its length is 5 sun, and its height is 6 sun. I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.

In rebellion, it narrows its eyes and extends its needles. It shows its back.

When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk. When it stands, its cry expresses profound loneliness, like a black dragon floating above the clouds.

By nature, it likes to stalk birds. It lowers its head and works its tail. It can extend its spine to raise its height by at least 2 sun. Its color allows it to disappear at night. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.”

- journal entry of 22-year-old Emperor Uda on March 11, 889 CE and earliest record of a cat in Japan [x]

Black Cat (detail) by Hishida Shunso, 1910 [x]

[howsublime]

Excited to share my first linocut, based on the three meme kittens that I love.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Caturday 🐱:

Paula Modersohn-Becker (Germany, 1876-1907)

Cat in a Child's Arm, c. 1903

Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 25.6 cm

Kunsthalle Bremen collection

[jareckiworld]

Shinji Ihara — Sayaka, Trash Cat Series (oil and canvas, mounted on panel, 2017)

[kundst]

Kerry James Marshall (US 1955)

These Blues (1983)

[madeleineengland]

Cat art by NekoMorino