Painting and Sculpture

Going to Work

Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry. Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England. The painting now hangs in the Imperial War Museum North.

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• ▸Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert
• ▸Achi people
• ▸Odalisque with Slave

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