Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Cottages in a wood - St. Ives, c. 1935-37
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card (orange)
295 x 475 mm
[AW 35]
On display
About the artist
Born 1855 – Died 1942
Wallis was born in Devon. He worked as a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives, Cornwall. After the death of his wife in 1922, he turned to painting as a way of fending off loneliness.