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about ls lowry the lowry shop skip to content welcome to the home of ls lowry every purchase helps fund vital work in salford and greater manchester find out more country region france eur france eur search search search reset search log in bag new arrivals ls lowry prints back ls lowry prints framed prints unframed prints postcards frames mounts ls lowry collection back ls lowry collection homeware shop all homeware ceramic vases coasters placemats cushions fridge magnets mugs tea towels gifts accessories books greetings cards jigsaws keyrings postcards stationery shirts by artwork coming from the mill 1930 going to the match 1953 going to work 1959 man lying on a wall 1957 market scene northern town 1939 yachts 1959 adopt a lowry by price 5 and under 5 10 10 20 20 30 30 40 40 50 50 100 tableware framed prints accessories artist collections back artist collections anthony mccarthy camille walala quentin blake x ls lowry gifts back gifts by category gifts for craft lovers gifts for doodlers gifts for food lovers gifts for game night gifts for little ones gifts for sport lovers by price under 5 5 10 10 20 20 30 30 40 40 50 50 100 greeting cards all greeting cards ls lowry greeting cards books about ls lowry who was ls lowry laurence stephen lowry was born on 1 november 1887 in stretford manchester one of the most distinctive and beloved british artists of the twentieth century ls lowry spent his life documenting the world around him transforming the industrial landscapes busy streets and quiet human moments of northern england into works of enduring power and charm although best known for his industrial scenes and northern town paintings ls lowry s art covers a remarkable range of subjects from seascapes and portraits to surreal dreamlike compositions his palette was deliberately restricted to just five colours flake white ivory black vermilion red prussian blue and yellow ochre yet from these he created a body of work that continues to captivate collectors and art lovers around the world today ls lowry paintings prints and artwork are among the most recognised and sought after in british art explore our collection of official ls lowry prints framed lowry art postcards and gifts in the lowry shop early life and artistic training lowry grew up in victoria park a comfortable suburb of south manchester but in 1909 his family s financial difficulties forced a move to pendlebury a working industrial town between manchester and bolton it was a move that would shape everything working by day as a rent collector and clerk for the pall mall property company a role he held from 1910 until his retirement in 1952 ls lowry dedicated his evenings to art he began attending classes at manchester municipal college of art in 1905 where he studied under the french impressionist influenced painter adolphe valette of his tutor lowry later said i cannot over estimate the effect on me at that time of the coming into this drab city of adolphe valette he had a freshness and a breadth of experience that exhilarated his students by 1915 he had moved to evening classes at salford school of art at the royal technical college on the edge of peel park in salford where he continued to develop the unique visual language that would come to define ls lowry art it was here that a tutor s advice to try painting on a pure white background led to a technique lowry would use for the rest of his career the industrial scenes that made ls lowry famous the turning point came one day when ls lowry missed a train at pendlebury station and looked up to see workers streaming out of the acme spinning company s mill i watched this scene he wrote which i d looked at many times without seeing with rapture from that moment the industrial landscape of northern england became his defining subject throughout the 1920s and 1930s ls lowry produced his most characteristic industrial scenes including the iconic coming from the mill 1930 which he described as his most characteristic mill scene his pictures of factories chimneys terraced streets level crossings and crowded northern towns drew on what he observed every day as he walked the streets of salford and manchester his figures people going to work gathering in crowds standing alone on street corners were carefully crafted as ls lowry himself explained i wanted to paint myself into what absorbed me natural figures would have broken the spell of it so i made them half unreal had i drawn them as they are it would not have looked like a vision national recognition and london success after years of exhibiting in and around manchester and salford ls lowry held his first solo london exhibition at the lefevre gallery in 1939 the exhibition was a success and marked the beginning of his national reputation as one of britain s finest artists in 1932 he had work accepted at the royal academy for the first time and in 1953 his painting going to the match beat over 1 700 entries to win first prize in the football association s football and the fine arts competition going to the match depicting crowds heading to burnden park the home of bolton wanderers has since become one of the most iconic and popular works in british art history by the time of his death on 23 february 1976 ls lowry had become one of the most celebrated british artists of his generation a major retrospective at the royal academy which had been planned with his involvement went on to achieve record visitor numbers for an exhibition by a british artist shop going to the match prints and framed ls lowry artwork in lowry shop beyond the industrial scene seascapes portraits and later works as he grew older ls lowry s work evolved from the 1950s onwards he turned increasingly to seascapes painting the north east coast of england particularly around sunderland where he was a regular visitor to the seaburn hotel the sea had always held a special significance for him it was the subject matter his mother loved most he also produced a series of quietly unsettling portraits of imagined individuals including the mysterious portrait of ann 1957 a composite of women he had known and later works depicting solitary figures against plain white backgrounds these late paintings challenged audiences used to his busy industrial compositions but ls lowry considered some of them among his finest works his drawings continued into old age and his figures became increasingly eccentric and surreal in character a body of private drawings discovered only after his death revealed further dimensions of an artist who remained complex private and endlessly inventive throughout his long career ls lowry s legacy ls lowry never formally taught students or gathered followers yet his influence on british art has been profound and lasting his paintings and drawings appear regularly at auction and in public collections across the country and his work continues to attract new generations of collectors and enthusiasts the lowry situated 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