Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 63
L S Lowry
"This art is a terrible business."
L. S. Lowry
British, 1887 - 1976
Church in a Hollow, 1944
Oil on board
16 x 20 inches / 41 x 51 cm
Signed and dated lower right: LS LOWRY 1944
L. S. Lowry is best known for his
urban landscapes of the North
of England, in which themes of
industrialism and the workforce
feature strongly.
The present picture is a charming
example of Lowry’s work dating
from the Second World War years,
while he lived in Pendlebury on
the outskirts of Manchester. The
church tower’s bold silhouette seems
anachronistic in a skyline peppered
with factory chimneys and plumes of
smoke; a twentieth-century tension
between tradition and modernity
appears to be as much the subject of
this painting as the poetic figures of
workers carrying on their daily lives.
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Provenance
The Lefevre Gallery, October 1945 (purchased from the artist)
Private Collection, 1946 (purchased from the above)
Mr and Mrs. Whiteley
Private collection
Richard Green, London
Private collection
Exhibited
London, Richard Green, L. S. Lowry: A Collector's Choice, 2004, no. 4