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.
More information
Title of artwork, date
Millworkers, 1948
Date supported
1994
Medium and material
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 x 51 cm
Grant
9000
Total cost
49000
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