L.S. Lowry : a life / Shelley Rohde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rohde, Shelley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lowry, Laurence Stephen, 1887-1976.

Lowry, Laurence Stephen.

Painters--England--Biography.

Painters.

England.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

250 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Haus, 2007.

Summary:

In the thirty years since L. S. Lowry's death several items have come into the public domain - including collections of private letters, now housed in the archives of ?The Lowry?, the millennium arts centre on the banks of the Irwell, which were made available to the author. Extracts from these will be included in her new biography to give added insight to the man. Illustrations, apart from the obvious inclusion of a selection of paintings and drawings (many of which have come to light since his death), will include facsimile reproductions of major exhibition catalogues. New in this biography: In view of the fact that in 1951 two psychiatrists offered him sight of a medical paper they had written on his industrial landscapes for the Journal of Mental Science, some of his so-called 'hidden' works will be shown to an eminent psychiatrist for a modern view.

Contents:

Chapter 1 'In case she should need to sit down' 7

Chapter 2 'All right for a hobby' 23

Chapter 3 'Suddenly I saw it' 39

Chapter 4 'Right there on his doorstep' 57

Chapter 5 'Why do you keep on?' 73

Chapter 6 'Didn't sell one' 85

Chapter 7 'Pictures that nobody wanted' 97

Chapter 8 Man with red eyes 115

Chapter 9 After she'd gone 131

Chapter 10 'Her name is Ann' 141

Chapter 11 'They are not real women, but dreams' 161

Chapter 12 'Giving myself up to it' 175

Chapter 13 It all came too late 201

Appendix 1 'Art is an incurable disease' 223

Appendix 2 One man's view 233

Picture Acknowledgments 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781904950493

1904950493

OCLC:

62345083