Laurence Stephen Lowry

by

Joyce Hemsley

Series of famous British names:

L.S.LOWRY (Laurence Stephen)
Artist, Painter.
Born eighteen eighty-seven
Rusholme, Manchester.
Died at Glossop, England
Nineteen seventy-six.
Buried alongside his parents
in Manchester.
He worked as a clerk in
Salford for some thirty years.

Educated in Britain, and in
1907, received private art
lessons with America's
William Fitz. He is remembered
as a recluse who stayed around
northern towns of England.
He never married.

Lowry received Honorary Master
of Art Degrees from both
Salford and Liverpool...also
Freedom of the City of Salford.

L.S.Lowry is well known for his
paintings of matchstick figures;
lank and bony men who walked in
the industrial towns of Lancashire,
England in the twentieth century
around the First World War period.
In other words "Matchstick Men and
Matchstick Cats and Dogs" as the
song goes! The buildings in his
paintings were also bare and
skeleton-like. Among his high
quality prints was The Pond, 1950,
and this work is in the Tate
London. In Salford, Manchester,
are approximately one hundred
works of art on show. Also
The Arres 1927 is now exhibited
in Nottingham Castle Museum.

Lowry's seascape art was excellent
as were his landscape pictures
and portraits. An example is:
"A Manchester Man" back in 1936.

His paintings are far too many
to list in this Write, but the
City of Salford hold one thousand
paintings and eight thousand
drawings - vast number!

May we all remember his name -
how could we forget when we
admire his beautiful work.

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