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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

From Tuesday 4 – Friday 14 November, our galleries will be closed as we install our next exhibition Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet. The house, café, and shop will be open as usual.

On Friday 14 November, last entry to the Kettle’s Yard house will be at 2.45pm.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

From Tuesday 4 – Friday 14 November, our galleries will be closed as we install our next exhibition Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet. The house, café, and shop will be open as usual.

On Friday 14 November, last entry to the Kettle’s Yard house will be at 2.45pm.

Photo: © Kettle's Yard

Painting

Houses either side of port entrance and seven boats, undated

Alfred Wallis
Oil and graphite on card
176 x 400 mm
[AW 120]
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