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L S Lowry
Born in Old Trafford, Lowry lived all his life
in and around the Manchester area, and studied at the Municipal
Collage of Art there and the Salford School of Art between 1905
and 1925. Early in his career he systematically visited all the
main manufacturing towns of England, and was inevitably drawn to
the older and poorer parts, endlessly fascinated by the odd and
the ugly.
By 1920 he had developed his distinctive style
and subject matter, but it was not until 1939, with his first
London exhibition, that this unique artist began to achieve the
national recognition which culminated in his election to the Royal
Academy in 1962 and his retrospective exhibition at the Tate
Gallery in 1966.
His northern industrial panoramas with their characteristic
'match-stick' figures are now widely popular, and in the picture
here we see the same people at leisure.
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