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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.
Alfred Cohen’s work is represented in over 50 public collections in Britain, including the Arts Council, the British Council, the Government Art Collection, the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Pallant House, the Barber Institute, and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
The School House, Wighton, was formerly the home of the sculptor Henry Moore. The School House Gallery has established a reputation over 40 years as one of East Anglia’s leading galleries for modern and contemporary art, and has had exhibitions of many artists including Moore, Hockney, David Jones, Gwyneth Johnstone, Derrick Greaves, Brüer Tidman, Elizabeth Humphries, Eric Gill, Sula Rubens, and Cohen. Its opening hours are the same as for the Museum.
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.
Alfred Cohen’s work is represented in over 50 public collections in Britain, including the Arts Council, the British Council, the Government Art Collection, the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Pallant House, the Barber Institute, and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
The School House, Wighton, was formerly the home of the sculptor Henry Moore. The School House Gallery has established a reputation over 40 years as one of East Anglia’s leading galleries for modern and contemporary art, and has had exhibitions of many artists including Moore, Hockney, David Jones, Gwyneth Johnstone, Derrick Greaves, Brüer Tidman, Elizabeth Humphries, Eric Gill, Sula Rubens, and Cohen. Its opening hours are the same as for the Museum.
Thu 2 Jul to Sunday 2 August
Alfred Cohen Museum The School House, 8 High Street
Wighton, Near Wells-next-the-Sea
Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk NR23 1AL
Open daily from 2 July - 2 August 2026, 10.00 - 17.30Otherwise open Saturdays & Sundays 11.00-17.30; Mondays 11.00-14.00; and Tuesdays & Thursdays 14.00-17.00; or by appointment.
Free admission
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