SMALL WONDERS: Masterworks by Alfred Cohen
Alfred Cohen Museum
Artform: Visual arts
Event date: Thu, 2nd Jul 2026 to Mon, 21st Dec 2026
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Event Summary
SMALL WONDERS celebrates the great visual intensity and emotional charge of Alfred Cohen’s work, even in the smaller-scale paintings, drawings, and sculpture (none previously seen in Norfolk) brought together for this 25th anniversary exhibition at the new museum in the artist’s beautiful studio.
Event Description
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 Cohen's death, and of setting up the Alfred Cohen Art Foundation, the present exhibition is a mini-retrospective, bringing together over twenty smaller paintings and drawings not seen before at the School House. They are superb works of beauty, feeling, and humour. As Cohen wrote in a catalogue for a mixed exhibition: 'Abundant energy and imagination can be found within the dimensions of a small canvas'. 'European art abounds with marvellous examples of great but small pictures', he said, citing artists from Vermeer and Rembrandt to Klee, Picasso, Vuillard and Bonnard. The works here show Cohen in conversation with the Expressionists and Post-Impressionists; but as always, the result is something unmistakably individual and memorable. 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 in the Museum. Each is, in Cohen's words, 'A picture for the eye to encompass in close embrace.'
Event Overview
- Event Title: SMALL WONDERS: Masterworks by Alfred Cohen
- Type: Exhibition
- Date: Thu, 2nd Jul 2026 to Mon, 21st Dec 2026
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Location:
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Event: SMALL WONDERS: Masterworks by Alfred Cohen
Event: SMALL WONDERS: Masterworks by Alfred Cohen
Organisation: Alfred Cohen Museum
Postcode: NR23 1AL
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How to Book
No booking needed; entrance is free
- Contact name: Max Saunders
- Contact email: [email protected]
About Alfred Cohen Museum
Organisation Description
Artist's studio museum devoted to the American painter Alfred Cohen (1920-2001), 3 of whose works are in the Art's Council Collection.
The Museum is housed at Cohen's home in North Norfolk, and includes over 60 works on permanent display covering fifty years as a professional artist. The Museum also stages annual temporary exhibitions showcasing specific themes, genres or aspects of Cohen's work.