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Industrial City

© The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Photo credit: British Council Collection

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Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976) was born in Old Trafford and studied in the evening at Manchester Municipal College of Art. He was a solitary man who rarely left the North West, finding his inspiration in the landscape of North Wales and Lancashire, and in the streets of Manchester and Salford. Lowry restricted his palette to black, vermillion, Prussian blue, yellow ochre and flake white. Whilst there is a naivety in his rendition, he deftly caught the hustle and bustle of men, women and dogs on the move against a background of terraced houses, mills and factories. The exact location of his works was rarely stated as Lowry often worked from memory, calling his paintings dreamscapes 'part real, and part imaginary … bits and pieces of my home locality.

British Council Collection

London

Title

Industrial City

Date

1945–1948

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 63.5 x W 76.2 cm

Accession number

P30

Acquisition method

purchased from Alex Reid & Lefevre, 1948

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

brc: L S LOWRY 45(?)

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British Council Collection

British Council, 1 Redman Place, London, Greater London E20 1JQ England

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