LS Lowry - 'Great Ancoats Street, Manchester' Framed Print & Mount, 42 x 52cm, Grey
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LS Lowry - 'Great Ancoats Street, Manchester' Framed Print & Mount, 42 x 52cm, Grey
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A reproduction of Lowry's 1930 work 'Great Ancoats Street, Manchester'. This archival giclee print has a cotton core mount in a handmade and hand-finished sustainably sourced solid ash wood frame. Made in the UK by museum specialists and printed on heavyweight, matt-smooth fine art paper, it's ready to hang on your wall. Originally, it was one of the many pencil sketches Lowry produced depicting the working-class Manchester area of Ancoats. In the spring of 1930, Lowry exhibited 25 drawings of the Ancoats area, all of which sold out. This print is colour and tone matched to the original drawing. Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in Stretford, Lancashire in 1887. He began to draw at the age of 8 and at 15 began attending private painting classes. On leaving school in 1904, Lowry began work in Manchester as a clerk with a firm of chartered accountants. He studied painting and drawing in the evenings at the Municipal College of Art (1905-15) and at Salford School of Art (1915-25). Despite his unusually long period as an art student, Lowry considered himself to be a self-taught artist. Lowry is best known for his paintings of industrial landscapes of the north of England. Have you thought about wall hooks and fittings?
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