That would be the end of it all. Lowry painted a number of seascapes in the s, s and s. Free of human beings, they are testament to the immeasurable power and presence of nature. Despite working full-time as a rent collector, Lowry enjoyed much recognition for his art in his lifetime. He had his first solo show in London in at the Lefevre Gallery in Mayfair; he was elected a Royal Academician in ; and he served as a visiting tutor at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art.
In , Lowry was even offered a knighthood, but he turned it down. In , as he started to earn good money as a painter, Lowry moved to the affluent village of Mottram in Longdendale, near Manchester. He also began collecting work by artists he admired, particularly the Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Sign up today. Lowry died in , at the age of Unmarried and childless, he left behind a host of paintings and drawings by Rossetti.
Lowry spent almost his entire working life as a rent collector Born in and raised in the leafy outskirts of Manchester, Laurence Stephen Lowry — was an only child. 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 Lowry Sunday Afternoon Lowry Seaside Promenade —8. Lowry The Three Cats, Alstow — Lowry Coming Out of School See all Artist as subject. Olwyn Bowey Portrait Sketch of L.
Lowry — Dame Barbara Hepworth Volume of sculpture records More finished drawings were made later and, after about , he only ever painted at home in what he referred to as his workroom, rather than his studio. His palette was very restricted and he used only five colours — flake white, ivory black, vermilion red , Prussian blue and yellow ochre. After years of painting and exhibiting in and around Manchester and Salford, Lowry received his first one-man exhibition in London in and went on to national fame.
He died aged 88 in just months before a retrospective exhibition opened at the Royal Academy. His mother, Elizabeth, was a talented pianist. By the family were living in Victoria Park, a leafy suburb in south Manchester, but in financial difficulties necessitated a move to Pendlebury, an industrial area between Manchester and Bolton.
After leaving school Lowry took a job as a clerk with a Manchester firm of chartered accountants, Thomas Aldred and Son. In , after being made redundant from a second job, he became rent collector and clerk for the Pall Mall Property Company and stayed there until his retirement in As a child he had enjoyed drawing, and he used part of his income to pay for private painting lessons with the artists William Fitz and Reginald Barber.
In he began attending evening classes at Manchester Municipal College of Art. His tutor in the life drawing class there was the Frenchman Adolphe Valette, who brought first-hand knowledge of the Impressionists, such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro to his classes.
One of his tutors there, Bernard Taylor art critic for the Manchester Guardian advised Lowry that his paintings were too dark. In response, Lowry tried painting on a pure white background, a technique he was to retain for the rest of his career. He had begun to see the possibilities of painting what he saw on his doorstep, rather than more conventional landscapes based on the countryside nearby.
Throughout the s Lowry developed his theme of painting the industrial scene and probably produced more work in this decade than in any other.
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