Cats, painted in the 1930s, is by artist and educator Dorothy Geneva Simmons Skelton. It is currently on view at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento as part of their permanent collection.

From the museum about the artist-

Dorothy Simmons was born in Woodland, California, and grew up in Oakland. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a B.A. and M.A. in art and education. During World War II, after marrying U.S. Army Air Corps officer John Skelton, she moved to Arlington, Virginia, and worked at the Pentagon in military intelligence. In 1948, she became a civilian member of Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit (aka the Monuments Men), which protected cultural monuments during the war and subsequently restituted art and other objects confiscated by Nazis.