CHRISTOPHER WOOD (1901 - 1930)

This lecture looks at the art and life of Christopher Wood a pseudo-Naïve painter inspired by Henri Rousseau in Paris and Alfred Wallis in St. Ives and whose friendship with the modernists Ben and Winifred Nicholson would also influence his art as he would influence theirs. 

His tragic death at just 29 made him an enigma but his paintings created between 1926 when he first came to Cornwall and 1930 are seen as the most significant of his short but unique life. 

This lecture by Art Historian Catherine Wallace looks at Wood’s complex naïve vison and his influences on modernist British art of the 1920s. 

Featured are his paintings of Cornwall including St. Ives and Mousehole as well as paintings of the rolling hills of the Cumbrian landscape and the buildings, boats and people of Britanny in France.

Talk by Catherine Wallace

Image: The Harbour, 1926 by Christopher Wood © Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate.

Age Guidance: 18+

CHRISTOPHER WOOD (1901 - 1930): A Complex Naïve Artist 

Thursday 22nd October 2.30pm

Tickets: £13.00

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