November 5, 2020July 6, 2021 by Lynley

Cats Looking Out Windows

Below is a collection of artwork and illustration featuring cats looking out of windows. I bet they’re wishing they were outside.

Ben Kliban, Cat Looking Out the Window from his calendar collection, 1970's — Ben Kliban, Cat Looking Out the Window from his calendar collection, 1970s.

Wanda Gag, 1893-1946

Franco Matticchio cat looking out window — Franco Matticchio

Etching by Hans Thoma (1839-1924)

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Richard Egielski (born 1952) 1976 ‘Six O Two Is The Life’ illustration for ‘The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring’ by John Bellairs

Public and Private Life of Animals, by P. J. Stahl, illustrated by J. J. Grandville, Publication date 1877 cat — Public and Private Life of Animals, by P. J. Stahl, illustrated by J. J. Grandville, Publication date 1877

Illustration by Hans Drawing for Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. 1934 cat looking out window — Illustration by Hans Drawing for Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales. 1934

Franco Matticchio cat bird window — Franco Matticchio

Cats at the Window by Wanda Gág, 1929

edward gorey cat window — Edward Gorey

The Sumner Intrigue by Frank Swinnerton (Cover artist not found) Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, London 1955 cat window — The Sumner Intrigue by Frank Swinnerton (Cover artist not found) Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, London 1955

Christmas Card by Edward Gorey; 1925-2000, cat and girl looking out window

André Édouard Marty (1882 - 1974) 1925 illustration for House And Garden magazine — André Édouard Marty (1882 – 1974) 1925 illustration for House And Garden magazine

Lu Green

Lu Green

Edward Ardizzone

Bettina Baldassari – Italian illustrator. The cast of this painting might easily be for the Australian picture book John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat (except the cat’s markings are different). The witchy vibe is there because of the cat and the broom.

Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862 - 1927) The Capture, 1924. Pencil, watercolour and gouache — Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862 – 1927) The Capture, 1924. Pencil, watercolour and gouache

Klaus Ensikat Arthur Rackham

Cats And Dolls by Margriet Heymans, Great Britain 1975 by Kestrel Books, 1975 by Lemniscaat Rotterdam 9 — Cats And Dolls by Margriet Heymans, Great Britain 1975 by Kestrel Books, 1975 by Lemniscaat Rotterdam

Cats And Dolls by Margriet Heymans, Great Britain 1975 by Kestrel Books, 1975 by Lemniscaat Rotterdam

Bettina Baldassari – Italian artist

Cover illustration for The New Yorker magazine March 1st 1982 Jean Jacques Sempé (b.1932) French illustrator and cartoonist

Gahan Wilson 2003

Helen Oxenbury - Through the Looking Glass — Helen Oxenbury – Through the Looking Glass

Miroslav Ša šek, illustrator and writer

Klaus Ensikat (german, b. 1937, Berlin, Germany) - Illustration from book Cats by Axel Eggebrecht (german, b. 1899, Dresden, Germany) — Klaus Ensikat (german, b. 1937, Berlin, Germany) – Illustration from book Cats by Axel Eggebrecht (german, b. 1899, Dresden, Germany)

Józef Wilkon's cat does not look out of the window. — Józef Wilkon’s cat does not look out of the window.

Vladimir Suteev (1900-1993) Who Said Meow 1952

And of course you can’t have cats wishing to head outside without cats also wishing to come back in. So here are a few catslooking inside a window from the outside.

Anne Mortimer for Tosca’s Christmas by Matthew Sturgis

Paule Bernard Roussel – French artist

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