Artist: Lawrence
Stephen Lowry
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| Profile: Born
in England 1887, died 1976. Lowry was employed for some years
as a rent collector, and he claimed that contact with the working
class life was to inform his art. At the Manchester Municipal
College of Art, Lowry drew from life in a traditional manner,
producing refined, naturalistic works. In 1915, intense dislike
of the Salford area developed into an obsession with the scenery,
mills and collieries that made the urban environment and the
people who lived and worked within it, a painting style was
consolidated that remained virtually unchanged for nearly fifty
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