Description
The first in-depth biography of self-taught, na?ve artist Alfred Wallis. The book chronicles his Cornish ancestry, his impoverished childhood in Devon, his work as a fisherman and merchant mariner, and his marriage and family life at Penzance and St Ives, where he worked as a marine stores dealer. It examines his success as an artist after he took up painting as a hobby at the age of 70, his interactions with the ‘real artists’ who bought his work, and his unfortunate end in the workhouse. The book contains much new information found during seven year’s of painstaking research, and is richly illustrated with 267 images in colour and black and white, including 104 colour reproductions of Alfred Wallis’s paintings, 10 photographs of Alfred Wallis and 27 photographs of his family.
