previous cats and cats from the past
categories:
ladies
gentlemen
children
celebrities
military
maritime
baby cats
big cats
black cats
siamese cats
cartoons, art, and illustration
possibly not okay and/or sad
cat falling in slow motion
gjon mili's cat blackie
rabougri: chat de gouttiere
black cat auditions for tales of terror
los angeles cat show
spitalfields nippers
the krueger family
the trimpey family
cats in baskets and other containers
cats in motion
cats in labs
cats in wisconsin
cats in people clothes and/or doing people things
cats and dairy
cats and corn
cats and non-cats
uhhh wut
personal favorites
see my alsos:
slight perceptual problem
the morthouse (formerly the ossuary)
old and welsh

Photograph by Gjon Mili, New York, NY, 1943. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.
Photographer Gjon Mili’s cat Blackie walking among empty drinking glasses left on top of piano after all-night jam session at his studio.

Portrait of Blackie, Gjon Mili’s cat. Gjon Mili, New York, 1943. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Portrait of Blackie, Gjon Mili’s cat. Gjon Mili, New York, 1943. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Blackie, Gjon Mili’s cat, sitting on piano as Jennie Tourel, French opera star, sings. Gjon Mili, 1952. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Gjon Mili’s cat Blackie playing w. toy mouse. Gjon Mili, 1943. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Gjon Mili’s cat Blackie looking at his portrait in mural by Saul Steinberg in Mili’s studio. Gjon Mili, 1947. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Gjon Mili, 1943: Gjon Mili’s cat Blackie sitting atop table held in unidentified man’s teeth. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Another great shot of Blackie by Gjon Mili, 1943. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Gjon Mili, Portrait of Blackie, Gjon Mili’s cat, 1943. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Gjon Mili, “Author Betty Smith w. Blackie, Gjon Mili’s cat,” 1945. (Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.)