Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/l-s-lowry-1533" aria-label="More by L.S. Lowry" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">L.S. Lowry</a>
Pond
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1951
adults
architecture
boating
bridges and viaducts
chimney
crowd
England
England, Northern
factory
figure
groups
hill
house
industrial
industrial society
lake
Lancashire
landscape
leisure and pastimes
people
places
pollution
recreational activities
residential
social comment
society
street
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
UK counties
UK countries and regions
viaduct
walking
water: inland
<p>This industrial landscape contains many features typical of Lowry’s work: smoking chimneys, terraced houses, the Stockport Viaduct, and figures swarming through the city’s streets and open spaces. Though seen as a realist, Lowry’s works were largely composed from a variety of repeated motifs, becoming increasingly nostalgic as time went on. The artist said, ‘I hadn’t the slightest idea of whatI was going to put in the canvas when I started the picture but it eventually came out as you see it. This is the way I like working best.’</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
1 February 2001 – 2 June 2003
2003-06-02
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2001-02-01
Modern British Art II
Collection based display
19 July 2003 – 11 January 2004
2004-01-11
19 July 2003 – 11 January 2004
2004-01-11
2003-07-19
Lowry Museum (Salford, UK)
2003-07-19
The Impossible View
Loan-out
16 November 2011 – 5 February 2012
2012-02-05
16 November 2011 – 5 February 2012
2012-02-05
2011-11-16
Djanogly Art Gallery (Nottingham, UK)
2011-11-16
L.S. Lowry 1920 - 1950
Loan-out
7 July 2012 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
7 July 2012 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
2012-07-07
Lowry Centre (Salford, UK)
2012-07-07
A Lowry Summer
Loan-out
13 May 2013 – 7 April 2019
2019-04-07
13 May 2013 – 7 April 2019
2019-04-07
2013-05-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-13
Gallery 35
Collection based display
26 November 2016 – 7 June 2020
2020-06-07
26 November 2016 – 7 June 2020
2020-06-07
2016-11-26
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2016-11-26
Lowry
Collection based display
The Pond
support: 1143 × 1524 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1951
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<p>This industrial landscape contains many features typical of Lowry’s work: smoking chimneys, terraced houses, the Stockport Viaduct, and figures swarming through the city’s streets and open spaces. Though seen as a realist, Lowry’s works were largely composed from a variety of repeated motifs, becoming increasingly nostalgic as time went on. The artist said, ‘I hadn’t the slightest idea of what<br/>I was going to put in the canvas when I started the picture but it eventually came out as you see it. This is the way I like working best.’</p>
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2016-09-06T00:00:00
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<p><b>N06032</b>	THE POND 1950
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<br/>Inscr. ‘L.S. Lowry 1950’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 45×60 (114·5×152·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist through the Lefevre Gallery 1951.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Lefevre Gallery, March 1951 (1); R.A., 1951 (564).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Mervyn Levy, <i>L. S. Lowry, A.R.A.</i>, 1961, pp.13–14, repr. pl.14 (in colour).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Maurice Collis, <i>The Discovery of L. S. Lowry</i>, 1951, pl.23; Mervyn Levy, <i>Drawing and Painting for Young People</i>, 1960, facing p.65.</p>
<p>‘This is a composite picture built up from a blank <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a>. I hadn't the slightest idea of what I was going to put in the canvas when I started the picture but it eventually came out as you see it. This is the way I like working best’ (letter from the artist, 21 January 1956).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults architecture boating bridges and viaducts chimney crowd England England, Northern factory figure groups hill house industrial industrial society lake Lancashire landscape leisure and pastimes people places pollution recreational activities residential social comment society street townscape townscapes / man-made features UK counties UK countries and regions viaduct walking water: inland