{"product_id":"9781906509897","title":"Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive Painter","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlfred Wallis (1855-1942) was a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unicorn Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051240145136,"sku":"9781906509897","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906509897_p0.jpg?v=1763618173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906509897","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}