Alfred Wallis

1855–1942

Castle Book c.1941–2
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Artworks

Schooner under the Moon

Voyage to Labrador

Houses at St Ives, Cornwall

On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Art and St Ives

Naive painting of a two-masted ship with tan and white sails and a blue hull on choppy water, between green piers with white lighthouses and a black boat, the bare grey board showing at the edges

The Blue Ship

On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Art and St Ives

Naive harbour scene on rough cardboard: white cottages with dark windows crowd ochre-brown land wrapped by a swirling blue sea, sailing boats along the top and a terrace of houses in the blue below

St Ives

On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

‘The Hold House Port Mear Square Island Port Mear Beach’

Two-Masted Ship

String of Boats

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Walks of Art: Emma Gannon on Barbara Hepworth and St Ives

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