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Laurence Stephen Lowry
(1887 - 1976)
Industrial Landscape, 1944
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Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976)
Size:
Height – 53.3cm
Width – 61.3cm
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Painter, born in Manchester, Lancashire. He took private classes with the painter William Fitz before working as a clerk in a firm of chartered accountants in 1904. During the period 1905-15 Lowry studied at Manchester College of Art and Design under Adolphe Valette and in 1910 began to work as a rent collector, a career that was to occupy him for many years. Between 1915-20 he studied at Salford School of Art, and began to take an interest in city scenes.
Until 1952 Lowry continued to work for the Pall Mall Property Company, and rose from the post of rent collector to that of chief cashier. He was greatly lauded in his lifetime, but never lost a certain dourness of character.
The Discovery of L. S. Lowry. A critical and biographical essay by Maurice Stewart Collis. Published by Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, 1951.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) L.S. Lowry RA, 1887-1976 : Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy, 4 September to 14 November, 1976. Published by the RA, London, 1976. ISBN 0900946288.
