(1887-1976) Lawrence
Stephen Lowry was born in Rusholme, Manchester in November 1887,
the only child of Robert Stephen McAll Lowry and Elizabeth Lowry
(née Hobson). He attended a local school in Victoria Park, but
took private lessons from William Fitz, before starting work as
a clerk for a firm of chartered accountants in 1904. From
1905-1915 he attended drawing and painting classes at the Municipal
College of Art (later Manchester College of Art, and now part
of Manchester Metropolitan University), where he was tutored by
Adolphe Valette.. He moved to Pendlebury in Salford with his parents
in 1909, where he was to live for nearly 40 years. During this
time he attended art classes at Salford School of Art, developing
an interest in the urban and industrial landscape. He exhibited
with the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts from 1919, as well as
entering paintings in the Paris Salon. By the early 1930s he was
exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London. He was awarded an honorary
MA at Manchester University in 1945, and Doctor of Letters in
1961, elected to the Royal Academy in 1962, and given freedom
of the City of Salford in 1965 - many other honours followed later.
He is
unquestionably the most celebrated of Salford's artists, and his
unique contribution to recording the period culture and landscape
of the city is without parallel. His work is a most distinctive
and comprehensive record of the pre- and post World War Two northern
industrial town. His so-called "Matchstick men" became virtually
his trademark.
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