Photo: © Kettle's Yard
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.