British Artists: Alfred Wallis
by
Matthew Gale
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1849762732
ISBN-13
9781849762731
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Imprint
Tate Publishing
Country of Manufacture
CN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 1st, 2014
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
514 grams
Dimensions
25.30 x 19.00 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Naive artIndividual artists, art monographs
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Alfred Wallis spent most of his life in the Cornish ports of Newlyn, Penzance and St Ives, and went to sea as a young man. His main occupation was as a dealer in marine supplies and he was in his seventies before he took up painting 'for company'. He sold his works for a few pence, and died in the poorhouse.
Alfred Wallis spent most of his life in the Cornish ports of Newlyn, Penzance and St Ives, and went to sea as a young man. His main occupation was as a dealer in marine supplies and he was in his seventies before he took up painting ''for company''. He sold his works for a few pence, and died in the poorhouse. Wallis is now recognised as one of the most original British artists of the twentieth century, the directness of his ''primitive'' vision and the object-like quality of his paintings being highly valued. This book revises previous accounts of Wallis''s life in the light of new research and traces the development of his painting over seventeen years. It also looks at the mythology that grew up around Wallis and at the sustained interest in the irascible eccentric whose work affected a generation of British artists.
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