Biography
Lowry was a British Painter born near Manchester and trained in Manchester and Salford under the tuition of Pierre Adolph Vallette during the period if 1905 – 1925. His chosen vocation was to represent the working class people and environment of the north of England in a quassi primitivist style, which could express fellow feelings as wells at times a satirical view of the common man.

Lowry had an exhibition in London in 1919 and gained some reputation in the years that followed, becoming a Royal Academician in 1962 but his popularity sprang from a touring exhibition in 1966 and was confirmed by crowds pressing into his 1976 retrospective at the Royal Academy in London.

The recent addition of the Lowry Centre in Salford affirms the national importance of this artist.