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Wells trained as a doctor and served as a GP for 9 years on the Scilly Isles, an archipelago lying nearly 30 miles out to sea west of Land’s End in Cornwall. After the Second World War, having developed friendships with Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo in St Ives, Wells settled in another Cornish artistic centre, Newlyn, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. He was a co-founder of the Crypt Group and Penwith Society of Arts, and also worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth for a time. Despite this, he never received the same recognition as some of his fellow artists, partly due to his reluctance to join a London commercial gallery during the 1950s when the work of his contemporaries started reaching an international audience.
Abbot Hall
Kendal
Title
61/62 62/1 Abstract
Date
1961–1962
Medium
oil on hardboard
Measurements
H 122 x W 83.8 cm
Accession number
AH 78/63
Acquisition method
purchased, 1963
Work type
Painting
Abbot Hall
Kirkland, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 5AL England
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Painting on Red Yale Center for British Art -
June 1958 Yale Center for British Art -
No. 3, 1957 Yale Center for British Art -
Composition Government Art Collection -
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