Thursday, 30 October 2008

30th October 1887.

English painter Lawrence Stephen Lowry born in Manchester.
Trains at Manchester College of Art and the Salford School of Art while working as a clerk.
Paints many pictures of Lancashire's industrial landscape which include large factories with many deliberately thin 'matchstick' men and women. Dies in 1976.
Many of his works are now exhibited at the Lowry Gallery in Salford.

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