"L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes" will feature previously unheard recordings of the artist in conversation with a young fan. Ian McKellen as L.S. Lowry in L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes. Photo: BBC / ...

The paintings include a striking image of a black tower in an industrial landscape, as well as one of Lowry's rare rural ...

Less well known in the U.S. than in his native England, L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) profited and suffered from a reputation not unlike that of Norman Rockwell in the States. He was popular, but for a long ...

All the little figures. It’s like a disease. You can’t stop it.” These are the words of the painter LS Lowry, discussing the compulsion that led him obsessively to depict the spindly hordes of the ...

The notoriously private Manchester painter agreed in 1972 to be recorded by a young fan. The results, broadcast here for the first time, are tender, revealing – and desperately moving In 1972 a young ...

L S Lowry was a struggling artist in 1926. But in a supplement for the Manchester Guardian, its literary editor, Arthur Wallace, featured three of his works in an article about a civic week organised ...

Other than Banksy, it’s hard to name a British artist who’s either more widely popular or more quintessentially urban than LS Lowry. This makes it doubly surprising to learn of a lesser-known side to ...

Laurence Stephen Lowry is a 64-year-old English painter who has spent the past 35 years discovering the city of Manchester (pop. 700,700). It is only in recent years that the English have discovered ...