L S Lowry R. A. ( British
) 1887 - 1976 HSAA
collections of paintings by Laurence
Stephen Lowry
Laurence Stephen Lowry awarded HSAA for distinction
in art
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Born on the 1st November 1887 in Stretford, Manchester. Lancashire. U. K. 40 years. He studied at Salford School of Art part time in the period 1915-28 and during the evenings he worked as a rent collector in the Manchester and Salford area. He would draw in a small pocket size sketchbook in pencil scenes of the people, the local life and grimy buildings during his working visits into the streets and houses. After working all day at the Salford School of Art and in the evenings collecting the rents, he would go into his studio and paint during the night and into the early hours, where he created in oil paints the industrial paintings depicting the people, streets and mills of Lancashire. During the 1930's he exhibited his work in Manchester and Salford, but it was in 1939 when he was offered an exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery , London, when his career started to take shape. Following the London exhibition , interest in his paintings really began and L. S. Lowry had finally arrived on to the art scene. Being a very cautious man regarding money it wasn't until 1952 when sales of his paintings were in steady demand that he decided one evening to give up his part time insurance and rent collector job. Now well known for the stylized stick like figures of the workers oin the industrial cotton mills of Lancashire, he received the honour of becoming a Royal Academician (R. A.) for his life's work in art. Lowry was always to be seen in his beloved Salford and Manchester, sketching the grimy streets full of children and people about their work in his personalized unique way. Late in his career he specialized in depicting the solitary lonely misfit of society, but it's mainly through his paintings of the working people of Salford and Manchester at the street level of the 1930's depression to the 1960's that he will be remembered. He became an active president of the Bury Art Society and was well known by it's painter members. During his life he became associated in Manchester and Salford area with the painter and long time friend, Theodore Zimmerman, who also lived in the Manchester area, and further details of this can be found on the Details and Associates of L. S. Lowry. page on this site. On one of Theo Zimmerman's visit to Lowry's studio, he commented on the huge amounts of Flake White oil paint that Lowry used in his pictures, to which he replied, "I buy huge quantities of white, but I only use Flake White oil paint, as I have found that over a few years, it tends to mellow quickly with age, and this is part of the atmospheric light effect I want in my paintings. " It appears that Lowry had experimented with various colours and painted a number of small panels with colour, including Flake White, and then placed the panels in a box which he put away for a few years. When he opened the box later, he found to his satisfaction that the Flake White oil paint had mellowed as he intended, to a greyish and yellow appearance which was the desired effect he wanted in his paintings. A new gallery, The Lowry Centre, has been constructed at Salford Keys, and is now open to the public. A magnificent exhibition of over 100 of the artists paintings will be on permanent show at the Lowry, and the public will be able to enjoy the artists works in this newly built exhibition centre, built specially to house the Lowry collection and to honour Salford's greatest artist of the 20th century. L. S. Lowry died age 89 on the 23rd February 1976. Represented in many public and private collections. The Lowry Centre is well worth a visit and can be accessed on the home page. A new exhibition centre in Salford, Lancashire. U. K. built specially to display the paintings of the famous artist L. S. Lowry R. A. |
"Studio de Theo."
Pastel drawing:
" Les enfants chez Le Touquet, France. "
Artist: Theodore
Zimmerman. H.P.S.A.A. (CLICK).
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