Ben Nicholson
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Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM was an English painter and sculptor of abstract compositions, landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England.
Portrait of Ben Nicholson by Mabel Pryde, circa 1910–1914
1934 (relief), Tate Modern, London
English Heritage blue plaque at 2B Pilgrims Lane, Hampstead
Alfred Wallis
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Alfred Wallis was a British artist and marine stores dealer. He began painting at the age of 70, in 1925, using household paint on scraps of cardboard. Having lived by the sea all his life, and no art
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…was recognizably his own. He first visited St Ives, Cornwall, in 1928 with his fellow painter Christopher Wood, where he met the fisherman and painter, Alfred Wallis. In Paris in 1933, he made his first wood relief, White Relief, which contained only right angles and circles. In 1937, he was one of the editors of…
The Hold House Port Mear Square Island Port Mear Beach, c. 1932, Tate Gallery
St Ives, c. 1928
Wallis's grave in St Ives decorated in the style of his paintings by Bernard Leach