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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total sale estimate of £15 million was achieved, even though two paintings failed to reach their reserve price and were withdrawn.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.
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 ...
The Church at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh (1890), the first famous painting in the list by Cultural Tutor, ... Canaletto's Piazza San Marco, Venice, was a popular example of that practice. #16.
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]
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 ...
Going to the Match is the title of a number of paintings by British painter L. S. Lowry, depicting crowds of spectators walking towards a sports ground.Lowry's best known Going to the Match painting is his 1953 painting of football fans heading towards Burnden Park, the then home of Bolton Wanderers Football Club. [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. ...