14 May – 5 September 2010
These quirky images, drawn in pencil or biro, are so simplistic as to make you believe you could do something similar in the same medium. Drawings made by Lowry showed his distinctive style of ‘matchstick men and match stalk cats and dogs’ as quoted in the song by Brian and Michael. It seems that he rarely carried pencil and paper on his travels and so, when inspired, he drew on anything to hand including the backs of envelopes and cloakroom tickets.This exhibition also shows how Lowry could draw and paint with great precision as in The Southampton Floating Bridge shown here as a pencil drawing and watercolours.
Lowry’s original pen and pencil sketches give great hope to one such as me who finds it very difficult to produce artwork in other than the photographic medium.
(c) Estate of L S Lowry
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