Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Drawing
Orange ship with five fish, 1941-42
Alfred Wallis
Coloured crayon on paper
215 x 275 mm
[AW 93]
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.