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Audio Description: Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life

16 September 2013 at 12.00–13.30
L.S. Lowry Ancoats Hospital Outpatients' Hall 1952

L.S. LowryAncoats Hospital Outpatients' Hall 1952

The Whitworth Art GalleryThe University of Manchester © The estate of L.S. Lowry  All rights reserved, DACS 2013

This audio description tour explores the Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life exhibition and focus on selected key paintings in the exhibition.  This major exhibition of the much loved British painter L.S. Lowry demonstrates his connections and debts to French painting of the later 19th century and its determination to make art out of the realities of the emerging modern city.

The talk takes place seated in the gallery with trained describers giving a detailed and fascinating description of key. Sighted escorts and guide dogs are welcome.

Please meet in the Manton Foyer Entrance.

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16 September 2013 at 12.00–13.30

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    Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life

    Tate Britain presents a major exhibition of landscapes by the much loved British painter L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) 26 June – 20 October 2013

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    L.S. Lowry

    1887–1976
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