What was lowry famous for

Throughout the s Lowry developed his theme of painting the industrial scene and probably produced more work in this decade than in any other. He exhibited widely with various societies, including the New English Art Club and the Society of Modern Painters, as well as in Paris, but no works were sold.

By he had produced what he described as his most characteristic mill scene — Coming from the Mill, now in the Lowry Collection, Salford. In the same year he held his first one-man exhibition in Manchester. All the exhibits were drawings of the Ancoats area of the city and every one sold, including one to Manchester Art Gallery.

In Lowry had work accepted at the Royal Academy in London but in the same year his father died suddenly. Elizabeth Lowry, whose health had always been poor, took to her bed permanently. Not surprisingly, Lowry produced fewer works during the s. In he painted Head of a Man which began as a self-portrait but was turned into a grotesque head. In Lowry had his first solo exhibition in London at the Lefevre gallery.

The exhibition was successful, and many of the works sold, but in October that year, Elizabeth Lowry died. With the outbreak of the Second World War Lefevre cancelled his next exhibition and it was before he showed work there again. As Lowry tired of industrial scenes his attention turned to other subjects. Increasingly his work focused on small groups of figures and individuals painted on a plain white ground with little or no architectural or landscape setting.

He insisted that they were all based on real characters, often people he saw living on the streets, such as A Beggar c Lowry made his artwork? Join artist Kathryn Edwards to learn about perspective, form and colour. Simon Marshall. A friend of L. Lowry in the s remembers the artist and his cheeky sense of humour.

Michael Symmons Roberts. Shirley Baker. Celebrated documentary photographer Shirley Baker captured the same areas in Manchester and Salford that L. Lowry painted. Here, she talks …. Wilhelm Sasnal. Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal finds the sublime, the symbolic and memories of his childhood in the paintings of L. Main menu additional Become a Member Shop. In Tate Britain. Prints and Drawings Rooms 15 artworks by L.

Read full Wikipedia entry. Artworks Left Right. Lowry Tree in a Square View by appointment. Lowry Francis Terrace, Salford — Lowry Dwelling, Ordsall Lane, Salford Lowry The Pond Francis Street, Salford L. The Floating Bridge, Southampton L. Related Artists. Florine Stettheimer - Andre Bauchant - Adolf Dietrich - Mykhailo Boychuk - Camille Bombois - Jules Lefranc - Marc Chagall - Victor Palmov - Leon Underwood - Rene Magritte - Winifred Knights - Antonio Ligabue - Kateryna Bilokur - Christopher Wood - Arman Manookian - Walter Battiss - Frida Kahlo - Mariam Aslamazian -