Louis Wain, who popularized cats in his paintings and inspired the film “The Electric Life of Louis Wain” with Benedict Cumberbatch, lived a tragic life, dying penniless in a psychiatri… ...

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 ...

Artist Louis Wain is played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the whimsical, wonderful dramedy “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

See Louis Wain’s Exuberant Cat Art at the Hospital Where He Spent His Later Years The Victorian artist’s famous feline portraits are on view at England’s Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

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. The ...

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings. Biography, drama, history Rating: PG-13 for some thematic material and strong language.

Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the titular English painter in 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' for Amazon Studios. 'Louis Wain' review: Cumberbatch as cat painter no meow-sterpiece - Los Angeles ...

Louis Wain painted cats, hundreds if not thousands of cats. He painted the critters with big googly eyes, gathered round the dinner table, serving tea or slurping at straws. He painted them ...

Rated PG-13. At Landmark Kendall Square and on Amazon. Here is a cat film almost fine enough to make us forget “Cats.” Based on the true story of Louis Wain, a turn of the 20th century artist ...

Over time, as Louis’s life takes a number of dramatic turns, his cat love deepens and his art changes, and so do both the movie and Cumberbatch’s layered performance, with its openness ...

"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 Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." So proclaimed the ...

"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 Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." So proclaimed the ...