Davies a well as further material including newspaper clippings relating to this exhibition and Lowry’s patronage of Miss Lowe Lowry’, the letter with original envelope addressed to Miss Lowe by Lowry bearing ‘Hyde Cheshire ’ postal stamp Ī letter from Stanley Shaw of the City of Salford Art Galleries and Museums to Miss Lowe' dated January 1973 discussing Lowry’s interest in her work and desire to meet Miss Lowe to further discuss it along with the Keeper of Art Mr. I am sorry but I am extremely busy at the present & am away a lot & cannot be here on Tuesday. I am glad to gather that you are very busy. Manchester letterhead paper: ‘Dear Miss Lowe, Thank you for your letter. Lowry also visited my studio ’.Ī handwritten letter from Lowry to Miss Lowe dated 6th October 1973 on The Elms, 23 Stalybridge Road, Mottram, Nr. Lowry gave the sketch the Thumb Test on the sketch he had given me to show it wasn’t a fake, I still have the 21st Birthday present and lots of photographs taken over 6 years. Betty Swindells who lived at 13 or 15, Ash Lane, Mottram-in-Longdendale, and opposite a police station ’ ‘Mr. Lowry 3 or 4 times a year for six years until he died aged 88.’ ‘I made friends with his house keeper Mrs. Lowry gave me a choice of two drawings, a sketch/roughs for a large painting, one was of the Industrial Landscape and the other sketch was of a cottage covered with roses, it is now under water of a lake, if I had this Birthday present auctioned it could also ‘fetch’ £4,000. Lowry had just been ‘broken into’ at the time of contact and he choose me to see him the following week.
Lowry choose 14th April for me to visit him and I said it will be my 21st Birthday on 14th April.
Lowry gave me a sketch on the back of the Royal Academy Banquet and Private View card, it is of the industrial landscape, Mr. The following are extracts from a letter included in this lot written in 2007 by the late Miss Lowe to friends discussing the circumstances in which she obtained the sketch: ‘(1970) I had my 21st birthday on 14th April and Mr. Lowe, a Northern artist and photographer who came to know and become friends with Lowry Lowry encouraged her in her work, supported the inclusion of Miss Lowe in an exhibition held at Manchester City Art Galleries in early 1975 and offered this work to Miss Lowe as a 21st birthday present. (D) This sketch is offered as part of the archive of Alice J. Lowe, one of a choice of two, the other a biro drawing of a Derbyshire village which is now under a resvoire )’. LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (BRITISH, 1887-1976) a felt tip sketch of an industrial landscape, later signed in biro and dated 1965, executed on the reverse of an unused Royal Academy Soirée Invitation dated 1st July 1964, 11.7 x 15cm, later laminated, the Invitation inscribed ‘April 1971 (Presented to me, Alice J.
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