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Synopsis
The first exhibition of L S Lowry's work at The Lowry takes as its theme the figures in his paintings and drawings. It brings together pictures from across his career, ranging from art school studies to the strange, half-human shapes in drawings made before his death in 1976. Early drawings at the beginning demonstrate his mastery of tradition life-study training and are much closer to academic style than is ever found in his later works. Like many artists he abandoned his early art school training to develop his own ways of seeing. Along the way are examples of his best known and best loved crowded industrial scenes. Many of the later works are from the Lowry estate and were found in Lowry's house and studio when he died - pictures which had surrounded him in piles on the floor or stacked against walls. Lowry's styles are personal, eccentric and visionary. This fully illustrated book includes an essay by artist and author Merlin James and brings together for the first time one of the major elements in the work of this perennially popular artist.