LS Lowry signed Prints - Signed Limited Edition Prints and Original Paintings

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lowry-goingtothematch
signed print 'Going to the match' limited edition of 300
ls-lowry-threecatsalstow
signed lithograph 'Three cats , Alstow' a limited edition of 75
signed-print-manonawall
Signed print 'Man on a wall' limited edition of 500
lowry-signed-print-Berwick
signed print Berwick-on-Tweed limited edition of 650
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A short biography of L.S.Lowry
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All limited editions shown below are in stock and well below gallery retail prices!
Original paintings/drawings and Signed, Limited Edition Lowry prints


  
treeinasquare           threecatsalstow          oldstepsstockport            lowry-castleonthesands         lowry-northerntown
Tree in a square         The three cats Alstow       Old steps Stockport       Castle on the sands          A Northern Town
   by L.S.Lowry               by L.S.Lowry                 by Lowry                by L.S.Lowry                 by Lowry
   lithograph               S.L.E.lithograph           S.L.E. Lithograph             Lithograph           S.L.E. Lithograph

industrialtown           hillside          lowry-peelpark-print         lowry-streetfullofpeople           print--viaductsalford
Industrial town                A Hillside                Peel Park           Street full of people      The Viaduct, Salford
 by "Laurence S. Lowry"   lithograph of 75              by Lowry                lithograph of 75             by L.S.Lowry
Signed,Limited edition   Signed,Limited edition  Signed,limited edition   Signed, limited edition       S.L.E. Lithograph

marketsceneinanortherntown-lslowry             hisfamily           manholdingchild-lowry           industrialpanorama- lowry        lowry-print-manonawall
  Market scene                   His Family             Man holding child        "Industrial panorama"      Man on the wall
Signed,Limited edition           by Lowry                "L. S. Lowry"        Signed, limited edition  Limited edition print


   twobrothers              noticeboard                       viewofatown           print-sailingboats
  The Two Brothers          The Noticeboard        People standing about         View of a town              Sailing Boats
signed,limited edition    signed,limited edition  signed, limited edition            by Lowry              signed, print
    

    
levelcrossingtrain            StationApproach        levelcrossingburton-lowry               mrsswindells-lslowry            ourtown
Level Crossing with Train   Station Approach        Level crossing,          Mrs Swindells Picture           Our Town
 Signed,limited edition  Signed Limited edition     Burton-on-Trent          Signed Limited edition        Signed print
      

onthesands                beachsketch          beach-lslowry          ferryboats         lowry-harbour
On the sands                     Deal                   The Beach                 Ferry boats              The Harbour
signed, limited edition     by L.S.Lowry                 by L.S.Lowry         signed,limited edition        signed,print
   by L.S.Lowry         Signed,limited edition    Signed Limited edition               by Lowry                    by Lowry


stlukes               simonschurch-l.s.lowry              burford-l.s.lowry            huddersfield             fevervan
St Lukes, London         St. Simon's Church         Burford Church             Huddersfield                The Fever Van
Signed limited, edition    Edition of 300               by                         Lowry                       Lowry
  L.S.Lowry            Signed, limited edition       L.S.Lowry           signed, limited edition           signed print
              
  
    
farmbuildings             ferryboats           crimelake        threemenandacat               portraits
 Landscape with              Ferry Boats                  Crime Lake       Three men and a cat     Mother,  Father, L.S.Lowry
Farm buildings                  by Lowry            Signed, limited edition       Lowry                and medallion
  by Lowry                Signed Limited edition                ls lowry                            Signed, limited editions
      
  
britainatplay             meetingpoint            WomanWithBeard        pond          referencelibrary
Britain at Play              Meeting Point                Woman with beard        The Pond            The Reference library
signed print             Image size 18.5" x 28"            by Lowry         Signed, limited edition         ls lowry

      
    
groupofchildren                       groupofchildrensketch                  womanwithbeardsketch             berwick-on-tweed             lowry-cart         
Group of Children    Sketch for Group of children     Sketch for woman           Berwick-on-Tweed            The Cart
Image size 7" x 8"          Image size 23" x19"           with beard                ls lowry               l.s. lowry
Signed Limited edition        Limited edition          Limited edition      Signed Limited edition print
         
lonelyhouse              thefamily               streetscene               industrialscene              mrsswindells
Lonely House                  The Family                 Streetscene          Industrial scene           " Mrs Swindell's 
signed,limited edition         by L.S.Lowry            by L.S.Lowry            by L.S.Lowry                  picture"
 by L.S.Lowry            Signed,limited edition         Signed print      Signed Limited edition            by L.S.Lowry

ancoatsstreet              stmarys              referencelibrary          lowry-footballmatch            millscene
Great Ancoats street      St. Mary's Beswick           Reference library    The Football match               Mill Scene
signed,limited edition   Signed,limited edition   Signed Limited edition  Signed Limited edition print        by Lowry


          
(Unsigned) Limited Edition Prints by Lowry
   
crowdaroundacricketsightboard               footballmatch             organgrinder             lowry-burford-unsigned       stlukes-unsigned
 Crowd around a              The Football match          The organ grinder           Burford church       St. Lukes church
cricket sight board           by L.S.Lowry                  L.S.Lowry                 by Lowry                LS Lowry
Limited edition print     Limited edition print           Limited edition          Limited edition print Limited edition print


ariverbank                    salfordstreetscene             theauction        manlookingouttosea              lowry-lodginghouse
A River Bank            A Salford Street scene 1928         The Auction    Man looking out to sea       The Lodging House
Limited edition print      Limited edition print           Limited edition    Limited edition print  Limited edition print
  L. S. Lowry                     Price £98 inc.            L. S. Lowry            L. S. Lowry               LS Lowry

millscenebw               talltower               thetramp            familydiscussion            onapromenade
 Millscene                 The Tall Tower             'The Tramp'          Family discussion         On the promenade
Limited edition print   Limited edition print      Limited edition     Limited edition print       Limited edition print
 by Lowry                    by Lowry                   by Lowry              by Lowry                   by Lowry

     

Lowry Prints and Lithographs
There are approximately 54 signed prints (signed, limited edition print titles) and 17 lithographs;
Approximately 26 unsigned, limited edition prints;
and numerous open edition, poster type Lowry prints of decorative value only.
Guildlogo
The signed prints usually have an embossed stamp, by the Fine art trade guild,
or that of the publisher;

Some titles are simply signed and numbered, eg.. signaturenumber

and several titles eg. 'Mill scene', 'Level crossing' and 'Market scene' are simply signed in pencil by Lowry,
but not stamped or numbered, although they are limited edition prints (editions of 750).

Lowry Signed limited editionPrints and Lithographs
There were over the years approximately fourteen different publishers of Lowry' paintings;
The Adam Collection Ltd.
Ainsworths Ltd.
Henry Donn Galleries
Frost and Reed Ltd.
Ganymed original editions Ltd.
Grove galleries Ltd.
Jupiter books (London) Ltd.
The Manchester club
Mainstone publications
The Medici society Ltd.
Gordon Mellor
Peinture Ltd.
Penrose Fine art Ltd.
The Sunday Observer

Each publisher used different printers, who in turn would use different quality inks and papers. (some better than others)
The prints would be published, sometimes using the Fine art trade guild as an independant stamp of authority,
eg. 'The reference library' and 'Ferry boats' and in other cases, the work would be signed, stamped by the publisher's
own embossed stamp and numbered, eg. 'The football match' and 'St. Luke's church' or sometimes, simply signed
by Lowry and numbered. eg. 'Burford church' and 'Man on the wall'

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Lowry's Life

1905 - Art School


Lowry disliked being classified as an amatuer or part-time painter, who had no formal teaching. "I started to paint at 15years old. why..Who knows.
My aunt said they might as well send me to Art School as I was no good for anything else, so ..." He began to take evening classes in 1905 'antique and freehand
drawing'.
"If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!"
Later he studied in Salford Royal Technical College, and at Peel Parkthe Manchester Academy of Fine Art .
According to records in the 1920's, Lowry was still attending classes. Lowry was taught by highly respected proffessionals such as the
Frenchman Adolphe Valette - He saw how French Impressionism had changed the way modern art was perceived. Lowry knew from exhibitions
he had viewed in Manchester all the present day fashions in contemorary painting,
and loved the work of Pre-Raphaelites, eg. Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.Not at all a 'naïve part-time painter', Lowry was an artist who looked for his own
unique style of painting and drawing - and for a subject matter that would be his, the view from the Technical College
window was of much more interest to Lowry than a model posing.

Industrial Scenes late 1920s - 1930s


Lowry was a rent collector for the Pall Mall Property Company. He prefered not tell people about his work because he did not want them to think of him as
a spare-time painter. His job took to him walking all over the city. He saw...! Children playing in the streets, people returning from work,
going off to work, gossip on the front steps, incidents, market places and Whit - processions. But this all changed in his lifetime: the blitz and
rebuilding, slum clearances and new housing, changed the face of the city he had observed so accurately.
"I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could.
It wasn't easy. Well, a camera could have done the scene straight off".

An Appreciation, 1921


Bernard Taylor,then a writer in The Guardian newspaper, recognised the true quality of Lowry's work, when he reviewed one of the artist's earliest
exhibitions.
"Mr Laurence S Lowry has a very interesting and individual outlook. His subjects are Manchester and Lancashire street scenes, interpreted with technical
means as yet imperfect, but with real imagination... We hear a great deal nowadays about recovering the simplicity of vision of primitives in art.
These pictures are authentically primitive, the real thing, not an artificially cultivated likeness to it. The problems of representation are solved not
by reference to established conventions, but by sheer determination to express what the artist has felt, whether the result is according to rule or not..."

The Desolation Row of 1930s - 1940s


In 1932 Lowry's father died.Tthe following seven years, his 73 year old mother became 'bed ridden' and completely dominated her son's life. After her death
in 1939, Lowry painted The Bedroom Pendlebury - in memory of those long hours he spent taking care of her.
She always demanded much of his attention. Lowry would only get to his painting room late at night after she had settled down. "She did not comprehend my paintings,
but she understood me and that was sufficient". These were years of isolation and growing despair, which reflected in Lowry's paintings. They show derelict
buildings and wastelands as mirrors of himself. As an official war artist - himself emotionally blitzed - he drew the ruined shells oF
bombed-out buildings. In 1939, (the year his mother died) - the person he most wanted to please - His first London exhibition was a great success.
"After she died, I lost all interest". Continuing to paint was his "salvation".

The Painter's Vision, 1920


In his early years Lowry lived in the leafy Manchester suburb of Victoria Park. Then lack of money obliged his family to move to Station Road,
Pendlebury, where factory chimneys were a more familiar sight then trees. Lowry would recall "At first I detested it, and then, after years I got
pretty interested in it, then obsessed by it". The subjects for his paintings were on his doorsteps. In later life he recalled this as a sort of vision.
"One day I missed a train from Pendlebury -(a place) I had ignored for seven years - and as I left the station I saw the Acme Spinning Company's mill..
The huge black framework of rows of yellow-lit windows standing up against the sad, damp charged afternoon sky. The mill was turning out... I watched
this scene, which I'd looked at many times without seeing - with rapture..."

Colours


Lowry's selection of colours were very basic, which were mixed and painted on the white background. "I am a simple man, and I use simple
materials: ivory, black, vermilion (red), Prussian blue, yellow ochre, flake white and no medium (e.g. linseed oil). That's all I've ever used in my
paintings. I like oils... I like a medium you can work into over a period of time". Looking closely at the surface of Lowry's paintings we see the
many ways he worked with the paint and brushes (using the brush at both ends), also sticks, nails and his fingers.
He would occassionally paint over images. When x-rayed, the 1938 painting Head of a Man (Man with Red Eyes) revealed a female portrait and maybe
a self-portrait beneath the surface.
Someone once asked him where his old suits were. "I wear them", came the reply! Indeed he did, as he would use them when paintinglike overalls, wiping
paint on the sleeves and lapels.

The Artist at Work


Lowry felt that drawings were as difficult to do as painting. He worked on the surface of his drawings by smudging, erasing and rubbing the pencil lines
on his paper to build the atmosphere of the drawing. He was always doing quick sketches spontaneously on whatever paper he had in his pockets.
Lowry carefully composed his pictures in a painting room at home and took great care over the placement of each figure. Late in life he would sit before a canvas
or board on his easel and not know what was going to be in the painting until he had started working. He would call them "dreamscapes".
Bernard Taylor suggested that Lowry painted on a pure white background. Lowry experimented with layers of white paint on boards, leaving them
for a time so the surface went creamy. This helped Lowry to get into his painting the stark figures and the pallor of the industrial sky that he wanted.

The reclusive Man and renowned artist 1950s - 1970s


As Lowry began to be successful he changed the subject matter of his paintings that everyone seemed to want. "Had I not been lonely none of my works
would have happened". Deserted seascapes and landscapes became some of his most powerful pictures. Solitary figures and tramps were amongst his later paiuntings
of . "I feel more strongly about these people than I ever did about the industrial scene. They are real people,
sad people.
I'm attracted to sadness and there are some very sad things. I feel like them".
Sadly, everything came too late for Lowry. But his late years saw him become a popular celebrity. He also became preoccupied about whether his art would remain.
"Will I live", he asked over and over again, like the art of the Pre-Raphaelites he collected and loved.

Lowry from Childhood to Childhood 1976


"I painted from childhood to childhood". Lowry painted and sketched into his old age - often complaining to interviewers that he had "given up",
packed it in". He died aged 88 in 1976 only a few months before a retrospective exhibition opened at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was an enormous success
crowds flocked to see the work of this great twentieth century artist. Critical opinion about The Lowry remains divided to this day. In 1936 the Salford Museum & Art Gallery
started a collection of Lowry's paintings culminating with the world's most prestigeous collection now held in 'The Lowry' at Salford Quays

Galleries containing original work by Lowry

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum's collection of Lowrys
Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Bradford Cartwright Hall Art Galleries and Museum's collection of Lowrys
Bury Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Buxton Museum's collection of Lowrys
Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Bedford Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Museum's collection of Lowrys
Coventry Herbert Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Durham County Council's collection of Lowrys
Derby Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Derbyshire County Council's collection of Lowrys
Edinburgh Royal Scottish Academy's collection of Lowrys
Edinburgh Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's collection of Lowrys
Glasgow Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Hartlepool Gray Art Gallery and Museum's collection of Lowrys
Huddersfield Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Kendal Abbot Hall Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Kirkcaldy Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum's collection of Lowrys
Leeds City Art Gallery's collection of Lowry's
Leicestershire Museums and Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Lincoln Usher Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Liverpool Walker Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
London the Arts Council of Great Britain collection of Lowrys
London The British Council's collection of Lowrys
London The Government's collection of Lowrys
London The Imperial War Museum's collection of Lowrys
London The National Maritime Museum's collection of Lowrys
London The Royal Academy of Arts collection of Lowrys
London The Science Museum's collection of Lowrys
London The Tate Gallery's collection of Lowrys
London Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of Lowrys
Manchester City Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Middlesbrough Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Laing Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Gwent Museum and Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys (Newport)
Norwich Castle Musem's collection of Lowrys
Nottingham Castle Museum's collection of Lowrys
Oldham Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Rochdale Art gallery's collection of Lowry paintings
Rugby Art Gallery's collection of LS Lowry paintings
Sheffield Art Gallery's collection of L.S.Lowrys
Salford The Lowry Centre's collection of LS Lowrys
Southampton Art Gallery's collection of L-S-Lowry
Atkinson Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys (Southport)
Stockport Art Gallery's collection of Lowry paintings
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys
Swindon Art Gallery's collection of Lowry paintings
Ulster Museum's collection of Lowry paintings (Belfast)
Wakefield Art Gallery's collection of LS Lowrys
City of York Art Gallery's collection of Lowrys

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