Laurence Stephen Lowry
British, 1887 - 1976
L.S. Lowry was an English artist born on Barrett Street, Stretford in Lancashire. Many of his drawings and paintings depict nearby Salford and the surrounding areas, including Pendlebury, which is where he lived and worked for over 40 years at 117 Station Road, opposite St. Mark's RC Church.
Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of northern England during the early 20th Century. He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men." His intuitive analysis of human character defines an era in industrial Britain. He also painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes, brooding portraits, and the secret 'marionette' works (the latter only found after his death).
In 1976, he died of pneumonia at The Woods Hospital in Glossop, Derbyshire on 23 February, aged 88 and he was buried in Chorlton's Southern Cemetery in Manchester, next to his parents.
He left his estate, valued at £298,459, together with a considerable number of artworks by himself and others to Carol Ann Lowry, who in 2001 obtained trademark protection of the artist's signature. A publication on his work by T.G. Rosenthal was released at Christie’s auction house in November 2010 entitled “L.S. Lowry: The Art and The Artist.”
Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of northern England during the early 20th Century. He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men." His intuitive analysis of human character defines an era in industrial Britain. He also painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes, brooding portraits, and the secret 'marionette' works (the latter only found after his death).
In 1976, he died of pneumonia at The Woods Hospital in Glossop, Derbyshire on 23 February, aged 88 and he was buried in Chorlton's Southern Cemetery in Manchester, next to his parents.
He left his estate, valued at £298,459, together with a considerable number of artworks by himself and others to Carol Ann Lowry, who in 2001 obtained trademark protection of the artist's signature. A publication on his work by T.G. Rosenthal was released at Christie’s auction house in November 2010 entitled “L.S. Lowry: The Art and The Artist.”
