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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.
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]
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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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.
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.
The area of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester was laid out as a public garden in the 1930s on the former site of the Manchester Royal Infirmary.Lowry was familiar with the area and often visited the gardens, becoming acquainted with a range of unfortunate local people he met there, beggars and cripples, many of whom became subjects of his paintings. [6]
The chorus makes reference to Lowry's style of painting human figures, which was similar to stick figure drawings (a "matchstalk" is a matchstick in the Salford dialect). [6] For the song, Michael Coleman drew on his own memories of Salford and Ancoats as well as the paintings of Lowry. The song lyrics make reference to Lowry's painted scenes ...