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Dwelling Ordsall Lane Salford
Purchased 1939
adults
architecture
child
children
crowd
England
England, Northern
figure
flat
groups
health and welfare
industrial society
Lancashire
Manchester
Manchester, Greater
people
places
poverty
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Salford, Ordsall Lane
social comment
society
street
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<p>Lowry was fascinated by buildings. For him they evoked the lives of their occupants. He felt that 'A country landscape is fine without people, but an industrial set without people is an empty shell. A street is not a street without people... it is as dead as mutton'. In the 1920s he frequently drew in Salford: 'There were special parts I liked, a bit Georgian, older than the rest. My favourite places were the houses built around factories. They just attracted me more than the others.' Revisiting Orsdall Lane in the 1960s Lowry remembered that as he had drawn in front of the dwelling, 'scores of little kids who hadn't had a wash for weeks would come and stand around me. And there was a niff, too.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
Dwelling, Ordsall Lane, Salford
support: 432 × 533 mm
Purchased 1939
<p>Lowry was fascinated by buildings. For him they evoked the lives of their occupants. He felt that 'A country landscape is fine without people, but an industrial set without people is an empty shell. A street is not a street without people... it is as dead as mutton'. In the 1920s he frequently drew in Salford: 'There were special parts I liked, a bit <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/georgian" title="Glossary definition for 'Georgian'"><span>Georgian</span></a>, older than the rest. My favourite places were the houses built around factories. They just attracted me more than the others.' Revisiting Orsdall Lane in the 1960s Lowry remembered that as he had drawn in front of the dwelling, 'scores of little kids who hadn't had a wash for weeks would come and stand around me. And there was a niff, too.'</p>
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2004-09-02T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05003</b> DWELLINGS, ORSDALL LANE, SALFORD 1927
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<br/>Inscr. ‘L. S. Lowry 1927’ b.l.
<br/>Oil on plywood, 17×21 (43×53·5).
<br/>Purchased from the artist through the Lefevre Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1939.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Lefevre Gallery, February 1939 (19); Sheffield, September–October 1962 (10).</p>
<p>For a study for this work see <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lowry-study-for-dwellings-ordsall-lane-salford-n06027" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06027</span></a>. Another <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/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>, of a speaker in the interior of a hall, is on the reverse.</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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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults architecture child children crowd England England, Northern figure flat groups health and welfare industrial society Lancashire Manchester Manchester, Greater people places poverty residential Salford, Ordsall Lane social comment society street townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions