Lowery art paintings

LS Lowry loved by millions but critically divided. As Tate Britain prepares a major exhibition of his work, was he the victim of anti-northern bias?

View Old Houses, Wick (1936) By Laurence Stephen Lowry; oil on canvas; 17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.4 cm.) ; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

The Mancunian painter’s famous images of working life stemmed from an ambition ‘to put the industrial scene on the map’

A Footbridge

An Old Street

LS Lowry, famous artist, is buried at Southern Cemetery grave C 722

THE CAT LADY L.S.LOWRY thick impasto painting on wooden board size 39cms x 31cms ready for framing listed as in the style of or by follower of L.S.Lowry from

[Christie’s, London - Oil on canvas, 52.1 x 42.5 cm]

Although entitled millworkers I suspect someone has created this title at a later date due to his usual subject matter. Painted in 1948 after the first year of nationalisation of the coal industry so in everyone's minds at the time. No mills are in sight, and there were no mills close to where I think the subject matter is, only houses and a coal mine. Living near Pendlebury Lowry regularly walked past Newtown Colliery and Wheatsheaf Colliery. The parallel headgear layout with the upcast…