Oil paint on plywood
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<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>
Coming Out School
Presented by the Trustees of the Duveen Paintings Fund 1949
adults
anonymity
architecture
child
children
chimney
crowd
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
England, Northern
factory
figure
groups
house
industrial
industrial society
isolation
Lancashire
Manchester
Manchester, Greater
natural phenomena
people
places
pollution
public and municipal
residential
Salford - non-specific
school
smoke
social comment
society
street
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
<p>Like many of Lowry's pictures this is not a depiction of a particular place, but is based on recollections of a school seen in Lancashire. Lowry's combination of observation and imaginative power often produced images which capture a deeply felt experience of place, with which others could identify. For example, in 1939 John Rothenstein, then Director of the Tate Gallery, visited Lowry's first solo exhibition in London and later wrote: 'I stood in the gallery marvelling at the accuracy of the mirror that this to me unknown painter had held up to the bleakness, the obsolete shabbiness, the grimy fogboundness, the grimness of northern industrial England.' This work was then purchased by the Trustees.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 1994</em></p>
painting oil paint plywood
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Loan-out
31 October 2022
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2022-10-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 3
Collection based display
Coming Out of School
support: 347 × 539 mm
frame: 440 × 632 × 48 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the Duveen Paintings Fund 1949
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<p>LS Lowry’s combination of observation and imagination often made images that captured a deep experience of place which was relatable to others. Like many of Lowry’s pictures, this work does not depict a particular place but instead is based on memories of a school in Lancashire. Lowry often used repeating patterns in his work, and his buildings and figures were simplified to create a feeling of an ‘authenticity’, in keeping with his everyday subject-matter.</p>
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2023-12-04T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05912</b> COMING OUT OF SCHOOL 1927
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<br/>Inscr. ‘L. S. Lowry 1927’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on plywood, 13 1/2×21 1/4 (34·5×54).
<br/>Presented by the Duveen Paintings Fund 1949.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Bought by the Duveen Paintings Fund at the ‘<i>Daily Express</i>’ <i>Young Artists Exhibition</i> 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
‘<i>Daily Express</i>’ <i>Young Artists Exhibition</i>, R.B.A. Galleries, June 1927 (359).</p>
<p>This is not a depiction of a particular place but is based on recollections of a school seen in Lancashire (letter from the artist, 21 January 1956).</p>
<p>There are traces of an unfinished <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> 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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults anonymity architecture child children chimney crowd emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas England England, Northern factory figure groups house industrial industrial society isolation Lancashire Manchester Manchester, Greater natural phenomena people places pollution public and municipal residential Salford - non-specific school smoke social comment society street townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions