Sleeping Cat

A charcoal and white chalk drawing on grey paper of a cat curled up asleep, quick confident lines, soft shading, white chalk highlights. — Sleeping Cat

Dublin Core

Title: Sleeping Cat
Subject: Cats; Animals
Description: The only animal in Strand's work: her own cat, Pim, drawn in the eleven minutes he slept on the windowsill.
Creator: Helena Strand
Date: 1964
Rights: Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).
Type: Drawing
Identifier: 1990.11.8
Extent: 48.3 × 63.5 cm (19 × 25 in.)
Provenance: Bequest of the artist, 1990
Medium: Charcoal and chalk on grey paper

Helena Strand 1912–1990

Sleeping Cat, 1964

Medium: Charcoal and chalk on grey paper

Extent: 48.3 × 63.5 cm (19 × 25 in.)

Provenance: Bequest of the artist, 1990

Identifier: 1990.11.8

The only animal in Strand's work: her own cat, Pim, drawn in the eleven minutes he slept on the windowsill.

Rights & reuse

Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

Cite this

Helena Strand. “Sleeping Cat.” 1964. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://01hy7jb6pdd1k4jjjn56z4587d.app-platform-1.refbytes.com/items/show/230 (accessed October 27, 2026).

Collection

Prints and Drawings