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Millworkers

L S Lowry, 1948

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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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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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