Peel park sketch

L.S. Lowry

R.B.A., R.A.


lowry, peel park, sketch

"Peel Park, sketch"
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Original Drawing

Sadness attracts me, and there are some very unhappy things. similar feelings in myself".
All the things came too late for Lowry, but the later years saw the British artist turn out to be a famous celebrity.
Lowry also grew to become preoccupied about whether his art would last.
"Will I be remembered", he asked time and again, just like the art of the Pre-Raphaelites Lowry collected and cherished, "I painted from childhood to childhood".
Lowry grew to become an previous man - typically protesting to interviewers that he had "given up, packed it in".
LSLowry died aged 88 in 1976 just months before a retrospective exhibition of his paintings opened at the Royal Academy.
It broke all attendance records for a twentieth century artist.

Salford Museum & Art Gallery started amassing the artist's work in 1936
and steadily constructed the collection which is now held at the centre of the award-winning contemporary buiding bearing the artist's name.
Celebrating his art and changing the cityscape again.
A small quantity of paintings by the artist l.s. lowry have been published as signed limited prints.
Several of the most well-known being, 'Going to the match', Man lying on a wall, Huddersfield, Deal, ferry boats,
Three cats Alstow, Berwick-on-Tweed, peel park, The two brothers, View of a town, Road scene.

David Shepherd prints and paintings Sir William Russell Flint Holiday house to let in Dordogne France
Lowry signed prints for sale