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Please note: On Wednesday 29 July the Garden Kitchen café will be operating a reduced offer due to bereavement. They will be serving drinks and cakes before closing at 1pm. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The Kettle’s Yard house will be closed on Friday 18 September as we prepare for the opening of our next exhibition.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note: On Wednesday 29 July the Garden Kitchen café will be operating a reduced offer due to bereavement. They will be serving drinks and cakes before closing at 1pm. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The Kettle’s Yard house will be closed on Friday 18 September as we prepare for the opening of our next exhibition.

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Painting

Crucifixion or Allegory with three figures and two dogs, 1932-34

Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
254 x 170 mm
KY00686.E
Not 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.

Read the full biography