Mental disorder expressed in art The later-life paintings of British painter Louis Wain (1860–1939) reflect a mental disorder that may have been schizophrenia. Wain spent the last years of his life in mental institutions.
Kaleidoscope Cats VI (gouache on paper), Wain, Louis (1860–1939)/Bethlem Royal Hospital Museum, Beckenham, Kent/The Bridgeman Art Library