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A small selection of work in the studio.
L.S. Lowry
Lowry Prints and Lithographs.
There are approximately 54 signed prints (signed, limited edition print titles) by L.S.Lowry and 17 lithographic prints.
Approximately 26 unsigned, limited edition lslowry prints.
Numerous Lowry open edition, poster prints of decorative value only were published.
The signed L.S.Lowry prints usually have an embossed stamp, by the Fine art trade guild, or that of the publisher.
Some print titles are simply signed and numbered.
Several print titles eg. 'Mill scene' print, 'Level crossing' print, and 'Market scene' print are simply signed in pencil by Lowry.
But not stamped or numbered, although they are limited edition prints (editions of 750).
Throughout the early years L.S.Lowry lived in Victoria Park, the suburbs of Manchester. Due to lack of money
Lowry's family moved to Station Road, Pendlebury.
There, the tree lined streets changed to factory chimneys. Lowry recalled "At first I detested it, and then,
after years, became pretty interested in it, eventually obsessed by it".
Lowry saw the subjects for his paintings all around him. In Lowry's later life, L.S.L. recalled a particular event.
"One day after missing a train from Pendlebury (a local town) I had ignored for seven years, and on leaving
the station, saw the Acme Spinning Company's mill.
The huge black framework of rows of yellow lit windows standing up against the sad, damp charged afternoon sky.
The mill was turning out. "Gazing at this scene, which I'd looked at many times without seeing, with rapture."
A writer in The Guardian newspaper, Bernard Taylor, recognised the unique quality of Lowry's art work, when he reviewed an early exhibition.
"Mr Laurence S Lowry has a very interesting and individual outlook. Lowry subjects are Manchester and
Lancashire street scenes, interpreted with technical means as yet imperfect, but with real imagination.
We hear a great deal nowadays about recovering the simplicity of vision of primitives in art.
These pictures are authentically primitive, the real thing not an artificially cultivated likeness to it.
The problems of representation are solved not by reference to established conventions, but by sheer
determination to express what the artist has felt. Whether the result is according to rule or not..."
Lowry worked as rent collector for the Pall Mall Property Company, prefering to keep the work secret.
Lowry did not want people to think of him as a part-time artist.
The job led to Lowry walking all over the city providing L.S.Lowry with many sights and experiences.
Children playing in the streets, people returning from work, going off to work, gossip on the front steps,
incidents, market places and Whit - processions. But all this changed, the blitz and rebuilding,
slum clearances and new housing, changed the face of the city Lowry had observed so well.
"I saw the industrial scene and was affected by it. Trying to draw it all the time and trying to express
the industrial scene as well as possible.
It wasn't easy, well, a camera could have done the scene straight off".
Just when this northern artist began to have success, he was moving away from the subjects that everybody wanted him to produce.
"If it were not for lonleness, none of my works would have happened". Some of Lowry's most powerful pictures are deserted landscapes and
seascapes. Some of the most difficult pictures to enjoy are of solitary figures and downs and outs.
"These people affect me in a way that the industrial scene never did.
They are real people, sad people. Sadness attracts me, and there are some very sad things. similar feelings in myself".
Everything came too late for Lowry, but the later years saw the British artist become a popular celebrity.
Lowry also became preoccupied about whether his art would last.
"Will I live", he asked over and over again, like the art of the Pre-Raphaelites Lowry collected and loved,
"I painted from childhood to childhood".
Lowry became an old man - often protesting to interviewers that he had "given up, packed it in".
LSLowry died aged 88 in 1976 just months before a retrospective exhibition of his paintings opened at the Royal Academy.
It broke all attendance records for a twentieth century artist.
Critical opinion about Lowry remains divided to this day.
Salford Museum & Art Gallery began collecting the artist's work in 1936 and gradually built up the
collection which is now at the heart of the award-winning building bearing the artist's name.
Celebrating his art and transforming the cityscape again.
A small quantity of work by the artist ls lowry was published as signed limited edition prints. Some of the most well known being, 'Going to the match',
Man lying on a wall, Huddersfield, Deal, ferry boats, three cats Alstow, Berwick-on-Tweed, peel park, The two brothers, View of a town, Street scene.