Small Wonders: Masterworks by Alfred Cohen
Alfred Cohen’s large-scale works can be mesmerising: his complex, shimmering paintings of the Thames; or the dynamic, expressive theatrical figures. But his smaller pictures have a visual intensity and emotional charge which is just as great.
To mark the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Alfred Cohen Art Foundation, the present exhibition brings together over twenty smaller paintings and drawings not seen before at the School House.
The exhibition includes landscapes, seascapes, interiors and figures, and represents all five decades of Cohen’s career. They complement the twenty other smaller pictures regularly on show. As Cohen wrote: ‘Abundant energy and imagination can be found within the dimensions of a small canvas’.
Alfred painted in Norfolk for the last two decades of a life devoted to art. The Museum incorporates his studios as he left them. Over 70 works are on permanent display from a career covering five decades.
