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      • Lowry is perhaps England's most instantly recognizable painter. He was a solitary, semi-reclusive, individual who developed a highly idiosyncratic style that features firmly drawn industrial backgrounds against which groups or crowds, painted in his signature "matchstick men" style, go about their everyday business.
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    Early Life. Laurence Stephen Lowry was born 1 November 1887 in Barrett Street, Stretford. His father, Robert, worked as a clerk in an estate agent’s office.

  3. Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (/ ˈ l aʊ r i / LAO-ree; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury , Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity.

    • L.S. Lowry spent almost his entire working life as a rent collector. Born in 1887 and raised in the leafy outskirts of Manchester, Laurence Stephen Lowry was an only child.
    • Lowry trained under an Impressionist master. Given his day job and the seemingly naive style of his paintings, it was long assumed that Lowry was self-taught.
    • A missed train changed his career. Today, Lowry is best remembered for his busy scenes of England’s industrial north, complete with looming mills, imposing factories, smoking chimneys and massed ranks of workers. ‘
    • Lowry was an underrated portraitist. Lowry’s cityscapes are populated by stylised figures often referred to as ‘matchstick men’, but in the mid-to-late 1930s he took to painting people in a very different way, producing a series of haunting portraits.
  4. Laurence Stephen Lowry (LAO-ree; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity.

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  5. Lowry was a solitary man who lived all of his life in the North West of England, he never married, had few close friends and cared little for creature comforts (although he did amass a collection of works by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti).

  6. Lawrence Stephen Lowry. Born: November 1, 1887; Manchester, England, United Kingdom ; Died: February 23, 1976; Glossop, United Kingdom ; Active Years: 1906 - 1976 Nationality: British; Art Movement: Naïve Art (Primitivism) Genre: cityscape, portrait; Field: painting; Influenced by: Rene Magritte, Balthus; Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S ...

  7. Jul 3, 2019 · L. S. Lowry (November 1, 1887–February 23, 1976) was a 20th-century English painter. He is most famous for his paintings of life in the bleak industrial areas of northern England, done in muted colors and featuring numerous small figures or "matchstick men."

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