Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Death ship, 1941-42
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card (dark brown)
198 x 359 mm
[AW 92]
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.