Louis Wain: the Man Who Drew Cats by Rodney Dale

Louis Wain: the Man Who Drew Cats by Rodney Dale

Louis Wain, as the title of this book succinctly sums him up, was the man who drew cats. Indeed he is probably the most celebrated illustrator of cats of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This biography, first published in 1968 is now reissued with new colour plates and is extensively revised. Louis Wain discusses the artist's much imitated unique style. He specialised in the comic cat - cats drawn in human situations - or humans drawn as cats which amounts to much the same thing. As he himself wrote "I take a sketch-book to a restaurant or other public place, and draw the people in their different position as cats, getting as near to their human characteristics as possible." Born in 1860 Wain became a household name for his cat illustrations in the 1890s. His popularity in Britain began to wain in the first decade of the twentieth century so he went to America for two years to try and regain his fortunes, but this was not wholly successful. Thereafter he declined and his behaviour began to change. In 1924 he was declared insane and eventually ended up in the asylum, Bethlem. His last years were spent in a hospital.This is an absorbing story of a very talented, but tormented man.

Rodney Dale acquired his first Louis Wain picture, almost by accident, in 1966 but was unable to find much out about the artist at the time. He started researching and resolved to write this title, the first biography of the artist which was published two years later.This publication is also available in hardback ISBN 978-1-871136-59-3.

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ISBN 13	9781871136685
ISBN 10	1871136687
Title	Louis Wain: the Man Who Drew Cats
Author	Rodney Dale
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Chris Beetles Ltd
Year published	1999-01-01
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.