Millworkers
Artist: L S Lowry (1887-1976)
Location: Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Date: 1948
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 x 51 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £9,000 (Total: £49,000)
Vendor: Crane Kalman Gallery Ltd
Review number: 4092 (1994)
Provenance:
With Lefevre Gallery; private collection; with Crane Kalman Gallery.
Description:
Lowry uses subtle sombre greens, red browns, sooty black and off-white to portray the atmosphere of a milltown, of which Preston is an archetypal example. Dickens, in 'Hard Times', used Preston, with its countless black smoking chimneys fuelling the mills as his model for Coketown.
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