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Laurence Stephen Lowry

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England.  Laurence Lowry is known for Naive genre, figure, street and industrial scene painting.

An English born artist, Laurence Lowry became well known in northern England during his lifetime and did many drawings and paintings reflecting his native region around the city of Manchester.  Some of his works are town scenes of his birthplace, Stretford, and of Pendlebury, where he lived and had his studio for over 30 years.  A focus for him was the lives of people in industrial settings such as Coming from the Mill (1930) and Industrial Landscape (1955).  Often his drawings and paintings conveyed no sense of weather or geographic setting beyond the immediate scene.

He often drew and painted bustling city life with 'matchstick men', a name applied to his hastily drawn figures.  Some of his images, however, suggested mystery and foreboding and quiet, such as landscapes with no sign of human activity. It is possible that the tone of these paintings and drawings related to his childhood, which was unhappy because of his loneliness   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3788 characters.]  Artist bio

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