Year 1930 (1930) Created 1930 | Medium oil on canvas Artist L. S. Lowry Media Paint, Oil paint, Canvas | |
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Dimensions 42 cm × 52 cm (17 in × 20 in) Similar L S Lowry artwork, Oil paintings | ||
Coming from the Mill is a painting by British painter Laurence Stephen Lowry from 1930.
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Artist
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976) often painted with designs from Pendlebury, Lancashire in the United Kingdom, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years. His fame lies in images from the industrial districts in the North West of England from the mid-1900s. He developed a special painting style and painted cityscapes with people, which is often described as "matchstick men". He also painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes and discordant portraits.
He is sometimes referred to as naïvist, and often got to hear his annoyance that he would be a self-taught amateur "Sunday painter".
Painting
On the way home from the factory shows workers going home from a factory after the end of their shift. It is based on a previous pastel drawing by the same artist: Coming from the Mill from about 1917-18. Lowry himself considered the oil painting that "his most characteristic mill scene". It does not show a real factory, but the environment is composed of individual buildings with real details from his imagination.
Provenance
On the way home from the factory was bought by the artist in 1940 and is now at The Lowry, a theater and art gallery complex opened in 2000 at Pier 8, Salford Quays in Salford in Greater Manchester in the UK, which is named for Lawrence Stephan Lowry.
