Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive Painter

by Edwin Mullins

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Wallis was a semi-literate Cornish fisherman, a little mentally unbalanced and largely deaf, who took up painting at the age of seventy, never having received any tuition. He painted largely out of loneliness, selling his pictures for a few pence to anyone who wanted them. He died in a workhouse above Penzance at the age of eighty-seven. Wallis used to paint old scraps of cardboard, most of them oddly shaped and supplied by the local grocer. He insisted on using ship's paint, a medium which he understood, and he employed very few colours. His subject was usually the sea...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781906509897
  • Publish Date 6 August 2014
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 July 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Unicorn Publishing Group
  • Imprint Unicorn Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 112
  • Language English