Minimalist cat art by Asian American artist Anita Yan Wong

Anita Yan Wong art work of a cat

Anita Yan Wong is an Asian American Women Artist best known for her expressive brush strokes and unique style of “Contemporary Traditional” paintings that defies tradition and modernity. The artist, who taught at UC Berkeley S.F. extension California in recent years, is a 4th generation Lingnan painter (which originated in southern China in the …

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Jules Leroy Playful Kittens

Jules Leroy Playful Kittens

Jules Le Roy was a French artist, a painter. He was born in 1856 and died aged 66 in 1922. He painted in oils and watercolors and specialized in figures of animals preferring cats and kittens. He must have been an ailurophile (a cat lover) and probably lived with cat companions. Many artists like …

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Cats In Advertising

Advertisement for International Baking Powder c 1885

Cats have been used extensively in advertising. A specific poster got me onto the subject. It is not strictly advertising in the sense that we know it but using a fierce black cat to promote the United States Tank Corps in 1917. The military was recruiting to fight in the First World War. The …

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