I. S. Lowry, RA (1887-1976) is probably Britain's most popular artist. His pictures of Northern mills, and life in the industrial districts of Manchester and Salford, have a humanity and universal appeal that makes them accessible to and admired by all ages and generations. Nevertheless, as Michael Howard's new monograph shows, the popular image of Lowry has tended to obscure both the strength and conviction of his vision, and his place within the modernist tradition. Lowry himself was a complex character, a man who kept his life and activities strictly compartmentalized. Until his death, he kept hidden from the art world the fact that he had worked all his life until retirement as a rent collector in some of the poorest areas of the Manchester conurbation - an activity that assuredly had profound effects on his art. Michael Howard takes a completely fresh look at Lowry. It is possible now, over 20 years after his death, to dispel a number of the myths and sentimental stories that have grown around him - many of them encouraged or promulgated by the man himself - and to look afresh at the very real achievement of his art.

Lowry a Visionary Artist

Lowry, Laurence Stephen

Howard., Michael

Arts & Photography

Lowry Pr

L. S. Lowry: A Biography

ROHDE, Shelley

Painting

Few artists are as intimately involved with place as L. S. Lowry, possibly the most popular British artist of the last century. His industrial landscapes and townscapes are almost exclusively centred on the region around the cities of Salford and Manchester.Authors, Judith Sandling and Mike Leber, have pooled their expertise to create a record of the ways in which numerous paintings by the artist relate directly to specific locations within the industrial North-West. Having undertaken hours of patient investigation in archives and galleries, Judith Sandling has compiled a revealing and erudite sequence of essays linking a specific location to each work, together with related drawings and photographs dating from Lowry's time. Mike Leber has provided a general introduction to the book, describing Lowry's general relationship with areas of the city - not only as an artist, but as working rent-collector, trudging the streets for almost half a century.Photographer Len Grant has visited each location and photographed its current appearance, revealing both the sites that remain redolent of Lowry's painting, and those that have changed beyond recognition.

Lowry's City: A Painter and His Locale (Illustrated)

Leber, Michael

Sandling, Judith

A Catalogue to an Exhibition at the Lowry with essay by Merlin James.

Lowry's Places: September 2000-Jan 2001

James, Merlin

The Lowry Lexicon: An A-Z of L. S. Lowry

Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), artist and designer, was welcomed into the Italian futurist movement when he had reached only his early twenties, and was to become one of its major theoreticians and protagonists. His style, whether in painting, theatre design or graphic design, was always distinctive - an immediacy and vibrancy through the use of clearly defined forms and strong colours that has an instant visual appeal - a carnival of colour.This book has been designed to show Depero's work to best effect, allowing its visual effects full rein through its presentation. Roberta Cremoncini's text guides the reader through the different elements of Depero's work. We see him as Futurist theoretician, as painter, as craftsman and as graphic designer. Finally, the author describes his two attempts to establish himself in America: both were to fail, yet they have left us with much of his best design work in the form of striking covers for Vogue and Vanity fair, and with complex and dramatic paintings incorporating American imagery.

Fortunato Depero: Carnival of Colour

Cremoncini, Roberta

Depero, Fortunato

Estorick Collection

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