Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
White houses - Hales Down, near St. Ives, 1930-32
Alfred Wallis
Oil and graphite on card
149 x 232 mm
KY00784.EH
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.