L S Lowry came to Wales !

Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life

Tate Britain Exhibition

26th June - 20th October 2013

At the Seaside 1946 
copyright Private Collection c/o Crane Kalman Gallery

I have always enjoyed the Lowry painting displayed in Cardiff National Museum and Art Gallery.  Its size is enormous and depicts in fine detail the Abertillery valley with its railways and smoke.  Unfortunately, due to copyright, only postcards of this work are available for sale there.
A slightly larger version is on display at the Bistro at Tŷ Ebbw Fach, Six Bells near Abertillery.

Hillside in Wales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/painted_by/laurence-stephen-lowry_artists?&page=2

People generally think of Lowry painting the industrial landscape of the north with its smoke stacks and his famous matchstick men (and cats and dogs).

Now in the first public exhibition since his death in 1976, Tate Britain are holding an exhibition which includes little known work which he did whilst staying in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.  He was brought to Wales by a friend who knew he would enjoy painting the industrial landscape.

During his life Laurence Stephen Lowry made about 1,000 paintings and over 8,000 drawings.