Laying a Foundation Stone

© The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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City scene depicting the ceremonial laying of a foundation stone for a new school at Clifton. Groups of men and women sit on wooden benches in the foreground watching the ceremony performed by the Lord Mayor in a top hat and chain of office, who stands before a pulley system ready to lift the stone. Strings of bunting are suspended from tall poles above him and to the left the Union Jack flies high. In the background a group of school children stand in ordered rows. The scene amused Lowry greatly as he felt that the attendants looked quite bored.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Laying a Foundation Stone

Date

1936

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 45.7 x W 61 cm

Accession number

1940.73

Acquisition method

gift from the Royal Manchester Institution, 1940

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

artist's inscription : : blc : artist's name, date : L.S.LOWRY 1936

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