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LS Lowry

July 2024

  • A rough portrait, in dark and earthy tones, painted straight on to wood, of a dark-haired saturnine young man

    ‘It was magical’: hidden self-portrait by English artist Norman Cornish found at museum

  • South Wheal Frances in Camborne is part of the Cornish mining world heritage site

    Where tourists seldom tread
    Where tourists seldom tread, part 10: four more towns with hidden histories

May 2024

  • LS Lowry, On the Sands, Berwick (1959).

    ‘I put his matchstick men in the bin’: Lowry’s lost sketches go on display for first time

    When on holiday in Berwick the artist often gave his work away. Now a new exhibition reveals the value of drawings that survived in a shoebox

November 2023

  • A section of the LS Lowry painting Beach Scene, Lancashire

    ‘One of his finest’: LS Lowry seascape expected to sell for up to £1.5m

    British artist’s 1947 painting Beach Scene, Lancashire to go to auction after 70 years in Canadian collection

October 2022

  • Going to the Match by LS Lowry.

    Salford museum pays £7.8m for LS Lowry’s Going to the Match

    Purchase of 1953 painting beloved by football fans made possible by gift from charitable foundation

September 2022

  • LS Lowry painting Going to the Match

    Save Lowry’s Going to the Match for public, urges Salford mayor

    Plea to wealthy footballers and clubs to help buy auctioned painting to stop it disappearing into private collection

October 2021

  • An auctioneer looks at LS Lowry's The Auction on display at Sotheby's London.

    LS Lowry’s The Auction to be sold at Sotheby’s

    Lancashire artist’s 1958 painting expected to fetch up to £1.8m next month

May 2021

  • Going to the Match

    LS Lowry’s Going to the Match to go under hammer at Sotheby’s

    Salford artist’s 1928 painting of crowd flocking to rugby match is expected to sell for up to £3m

April 2021

  • David Lloyd George%u2019s Birthplace, Manchester, 1958, Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976), The Lowry © The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2021. Photo credit Sotheby's UK, courtesy of The Lowry Co

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: the birthplace of a future prime minister

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: David Lloyd George’s Birthplace, Manchester in the Lowry, Salford

December 2020

  • Maryport, Cumbria (1965) by Sheila Fell.

    Saved from destruction: the church where Lowry sealed a blossoming friendship

    The property that was the backdrop to a companionship between the artist and a young female painter has been granted listed status

November 2020

  • Commuters reading newspapers on a London underground train in pre-Covid times

    Brief letters
    A thimble solution to stuck-together pages

    Brief letters: BSA revival | Gary Younge | Lowry’s plan | Stuck-together pages

October 2020

  • Steve Bell 22.10.20

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on Boris Johnson's attitude to Manchester — cartoon

    Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of “dividing communities” and pitting regions against each other in his approach to local lockdowns

September 2020

  • ‘Grandfather clocks consumed his hallway. I wasn’t invited further in’ … LS Lowry by Derry Moore.

    My best shot
    Lowry in the shadows of his hall: Derry Moore's best photograph

    ‘He wasn’t keen on keeping still. He moaned: “You’re killing me, you know.” My companion said: “Well, come on, Mr Lowry, you always say you want to die”’

June 2020

  • eye-opening treasures at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, from Cabinets of Curiosities.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Stuffed mermaids, baroque masterpieces and David Hockney at dawn – the week in art

  • The Elite Fish and Chip Shop (1949)

    LS Lowry paintings of crowds to go on sale in Christie's auction

May 2020

  • Joyce Digney and Cynthia Covello celebrating VE Day with sailors in a fountain in Trafalgar Square on May 8 1945.

    Exhausted, relieved, yearning for change: Britain on VE Day

    As the UK celebrated wartime victory against Germany in May 1945, a landslide Labour poll win was only weeks away

December 2019

  • A detail from LS Lowry’s The Mill, Pendlebury

    Overlooked LS Lowry painting re-emerges after 70 years

    Christie’s to auction The Mill, Pendlebury, which has never been on public display

September 2019

  • Vanessa Redgrave in Mrs Lowry and Son

    Mrs Lowry & Son review – a prim portrait of the artist

    A ponderous study of the artist’s relationship with his mother

August 2019

  • Mrs Lowry & Son Film still Timothy Spall as LS Lowry and Vanessa Redgrave as Elizabeth Lowry

    Mrs Lowry and Son review – Redgrave and Spall paint a delicate portrait

    Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Spall steal the show in this low-key tale of the great artist finding success while caring for his curmudgeonly mother

July 2019

  • Painting Conervator, Nicoletta Tomassi cleaning Lowry's "Going to work" (1943), (Factory workers going to work at the Mather & Platt, Manchester, in the snow.) in the conservation lab (E20) at IWM London. Photographed 14th May 2019

    IWM North to host first permanent display of classic LS Lowry artwork

    Painting commissioned to promote Britain’s second world war effort depicts workers of Mather & Platt in Newton Heath
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