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Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (/ ˈ l aʊ r i / LAO-ree; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury , Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity.
Industrial Landscape is the title given to each of a series of oil paintings by the English artist L. S. Lowry, painted over a number of years between 1934 and 1955.. Each picture is in the form of a landscape painting, in which the traditional elements of natural beauty have been supplanted with factories, chimneys, bridges and other elements of an industrial city environment.
In a letter to the gallery Lowry wrote, "It gives me great pleasure that Salford have bought this picture for I have always thought it was my most characteristic mill scene." With the opening of The Lowry at Salford Quays, Coming from the Mill – along with the gallery's entire collection of Lowry works – was transferred to the new art ...
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Lowry’s painting Sunday Afternoon is estimated to be worth between £4 to £6 million. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry.. Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England.
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Lowry told the features reporter for the Manchester Guardian that Ann was 25 years old, lived in Leeds and was "the daughter of some people who have been very good to me." ." The architect and Manchester academician Frank Bradly, a friend of Lowry's, stated that Lowry had told him she was a pupil of his mother's who had died when she was 25