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Pages in category "Paintings by L. S. Lowry" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Going to Work; I. Industrial Landscape; P. Piccadilly ...
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 March 2014 fifteen of Lowry's works, from the A.J. Thompson Collection, were auctioned at Sotheby's in London; the total sale estimate of £15 million was achieved, even though two paintings failed to reach their reserve price and were withdrawn. [106] Thompson, owner of the Salford Express, collected only Lowry paintings, starting in 1982.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century.
Lowry based many of his paintings on the industrial landscape of Pendlebury, Salford, where he lived for part of his early life. Lowry recalled an inspirational moment at Pendlebury railway station: "One day I missed a train from Pendlebury – [a place] I had ignored for seven years – and as I left the station I saw the Acme Spinning Company ...
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. The painting now hangs in the Imperial War Museum North. [1]
Paintings by L. S. Lowry (6 P) Pages in category "L. S. Lowry" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Art of Unix Programming: 2003: 2005 [5] book about the history and culture of Unix programming by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso) CC BY-ND 1.0 [6] A Briefer History of Time: 1999: 2004 [7] science humor book by Eric Schulman: CC BY-ND-NC 1.0: Archimedes Palimpsest: 3rd century BC: 2008: reconstructed and released by OPenn as Free ...