Date:1937
Description:Laurence Stephen Lowry
The Mission Room, 1937
Oil on board
368mm x 508mm
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940.
Lowry drew inspiration from the townscape around Manchester, Salford and Pendlebury, where he lived all his working life. Although he attended evening classes at the Municipal College of Art and later Salford School of Art, Lowry considered himself to be self-taught. This work was completed in 1937, while Lowry was looking after his bed-bound mother, who did not understand her son’s obsession with painting. Lowry was only able to paint late at night and his work reflects the loneliness and despair he felt before his mother died in 1939. The painting shows a large crowd gathering outside the Mission Room, which Lowry may have seen as a place offering the 'salvation' he was seeking for himself at this time.
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Donor ref: LEAMG : A249.1940 (64/23908)
Source: Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum
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