Skip to main content
A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka S: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
Wrenfield Museum of Art
Display

Image

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. View larger
Sleeping Cat

Details

Title
Sleeping Cat
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 at her kitchen table, 1962. A black and white photograph from the early 1960s of a woman in her fifties with her hair in a bun and a cardigan, drawing with a stick of charcoal in a sketchbook at a kitchen table beside a window, a cup of coffee beside the sketchbook.Helena Strand
Date
1964
Type
Drawing
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
Subject
Cats
Animals
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. 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://demo.refbytes.com/s/wrenfield/item/956 (accessed October 16, 2026).

Item sets
Prints and Drawings