Item Number: 128694 Title: ALFRED WALLIS : Primitive Cornish Painter Author: Mullins, Edwin Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781906509897 Description: London: Unicorn Press, 2015. 28cm., pbk., 124pp., 95 color illus. Summary: Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) was a semiliterate Cornish fisherman who was nearly deaf and in fragile mental health. Yet when he took up painting at the age of seventy, with no prior instruction, he quickly made a name for himself. He attracted a number of distinguished patrons and collectors, who grew to prize his paintings, even though he sold them for only a few pence to anyone who wanted them. Wallis mostly worked on oddly shaped scraps of cardboard, given to him by the local grocer, and he covered them in ship’s paint, a medium he knew well from his fishing days. Using very few colors, he depicted the sea, boats, and other aspects of life as a fisherman, images that let him celebrate his memories. This book presents the story of Wallis’s life and work alongside beautiful full-color reproductions of nearly one hundred of his paintings. Rounding out the volume are transcripts of Wallis’s own anecdotes, recorded by his doctor, which bring Wallis’s artistic idiosyncrasies to life. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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