No commentary today - this Alfred Wallis painting speaks for itself...

In November 1876, Alfred Wallis’s grief over the loss of his son would have been compounded by reports in the newspapers about his friends on the ship that left Batteau the day before his:“The Recruit sailed from Batteo [sic], Labrador, the 8th of October, with a cargo of cod-fish &c, for...

Alfred Wallis finally arrived home from his ordeal at sea on 10 November 1876. Tragically, he missed seeing his newly born son, Alfred Charles Wallis, who had died just six weeks earlier. Wallis and his wife later had a second child, Ellen Jane, but heartbreak struck again when she died shortly...

Here is a newly seen painting by Alfred Wallis, soon to be auctioned at Lay's Saleroom. It shows a cutter or similar single-masted gaff-rigged sailing vessel on rough sea.It may be a late painting as it is done on the back of an envelope. From 1939, Wallis was forced to use this type of scrappier,...

On this day in 1876, Alfred Wallis was sailing home from Labrador on the Belle Aventure - the schooner damaged but safe after nearly capsizing in a ferocious storm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Wallis must have felt a surge of relief at the sight of the Lizard Lighthouse, a familiar beacon...

For me, this enigmatic painting by Alfred Wallis conjures the spirit of an ancient All Hallows’ Eve, when the veil between the living and the dead grows thin.It is the beginning of winter - the dark half of the year. The house looks small and ghostly beneath the towering forest. Inside, the living...