Lowry maintained that he had an unhappy childhood, growing up in a repressive family atmosphere. She used illness as a means of securing the attention and obedience of her mild and affectionate husband and she dominated her son in the same way. Like him, she was controlling and intolerant of failure. She was also an irritable, nervous woman brought up to expect high standards by her stern father. She is reported to have been a religious woman who was talented and respected, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. Lowry once described him as "a cold fish" and "(the sort of man who) realised he had a life to live and did his best to get through it." Īfter Lowry's birth, his mother's health was too poor for her to continue teaching.
Lowry's father Robert, who was of Northern Irish descent, worked as a clerk for the Jacob Earnshaw and Son Property Company and was a withdrawn and introverted man. Later she expressed envy of her sister Mary, who had "three splendid daughters" instead of one "clumsy boy". It was a difficult birth, and his mother Elizabeth, who hoped for a girl, was uncomfortable even looking at him at first. Lowry was born on 1 November 1887 at 8 Barrett Street Stretford, which was then in Lancashire. Lowry's former home, 117 Station Road, Pendlebury, Lancashire On 26 June 2013, a major retrospective opened at the Tate Britain in London, his first at the gallery in 2014 his first solo exhibition outside the UK was held in Nanjing, China. A collection of his work is on display in The Lowry, a purpose-built art gallery on Salford Quays. Lowry holds the record for rejecting British honours-five, including a knighthood (1968). His use of stylised figures which cast no shadows, and lack of weather effects in many of his landscapes led critics to label him a naïve "Sunday painter". He was fascinated by the sea, and painted pure seascapes, depicting only sea and sky, from the early 1940s. He painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes, brooding portraits and the unpublished "marionette" works, which were only found after his death.
He developed a distinctive style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures, often referred to as "matchstick men". Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinity. Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA ( / ˈ l aʊ r i/ LAO-ree 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.
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