
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Provenance
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Adrian Stokes
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Alfred Wallis, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, 30 May-30 June 1968, cat.no.135 (where lent by Mrs. Adrian Stokes); this exhibition travelled to York, City Art Gallery, 6-28 July, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery, 3-25 August and Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 31 August-22 September
Literature
Edwin Mullins, Alfred Wallis, Cornish Primitive, Pavilion, London, 1994, p.46 (col.ill)
The 1968 Tate catalogue entry notes that the lighthouse depicted is Godrevy Lighthouse and that Adrian Stokes thought this to be a late example of Wallis's work.