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ADOLPHE VALETTE and L.S. LOWRY
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Foreword by Claire H. Stewart, Curator of The Lowry Collection
Chapter 1: Adolphe Valette: The Formative Years in France and his Arrival in England
Saint-Etienne, Early Education
Lyon, Academic Honours
Bordeaux, Honours, Disappointments and a Springboard of Fate
Arrival in England
Chapter 2: L. S. Lowry: A Youth in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester and its Industrial Context
The Local Industrial and Social Scene
Family Background, First Employment, First Artistic Aspirations
Chapter 3: Adolphe Valette and L. S. Lowry at the Manchester Municipal School of Art
The Arrival of Valette and Lowry at the Manchester School of Art
Lowry’s Early Art School Records
A Charismatic Master
Lowry’s Reception at the Manchester School of Art
Valette’s Personal Approach
The Progress of Valette’s Career at the Manchester School of Art
New Directions for Valette and Lowry
Résumé of Valette’s Pupils and Lowry’s Fellow Students
Chapter 4: Adolphe Valette and L. S. Lowry: Influences, Similarities and Differences
The Artistic Scene in Manchester at the Turn of the Century
The Treatment of the Industrial Theme by Artists in Britain
Adolphe Valette, a Late Impressionist Painter, and the Painter of Industry and ‘Modern Life’ in Manchester
Valette’s Impressionist Paintings of Manchester and their Influence on Lowry
Lowry and Late Impressionism
Lowry’s Move to Pendlebury, his Portrayal of the Industrial Landscape and
Valette’s Influence
The Waning of Valette’s Influence
Valette’s and Lowry’s Locations
Valette and Lowry: Participation in the Same Exhibitions in the 1920s in
Manchester
Valette and Lowry and the Paris Salons
The Lifelong Exposure of Lowry to the Works of Valette and Lowry’s
Assessment of Valette’s Tutelage
Finale
Acknowledgements
Notes
Copyright and Picture Credits
Index
List of Iconography
WORKS BY L.S. LOWRY
Landscape in Wigan
The River Irwell at the Adelphi
An Accident
A Street Scene (St Simon’s Church)
Oldfield Road Dwellings
Band Stand, Peel Park, Salford
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother
Yachts
The Lodging House
Male Nude from the Antique
Musculature of the Face, Neck and Lower Arms
Seated Male Nude
Portrait of a Man
Selling Oilcloth on the Oldham Road
Head from the Antique
Girl with Bouffant Hair
Still Life
Portrait of the Artist’s Father
Frank Jopling Fletcher
Man Lying on a Wall
Early Morning
Clifton Junction, Morning
Clifton Junction, Evening
Horse and Cart/Country Lane
Landscape
St John’s Church, Manchester
Seascape
Street Scene, Cul-de-Sac
Mill Worker
Coming from the Mill
Pit Tragedy
Coming Home from the Mill
An Organ Grinder
Ancoats, Manchester
Piccadilly Gardens
Peel Park, Salford
A Fight
Lodging Houses/Lancashire Industrial Scene
A Lancashire Village
A Removal
Excavating at Manchester
Election Time
Mill Scene
A Football Match
A Hawker’s Cart
Self-Portrait
Our Town (A Town Square)
Ancoats Outpatients’ Hall
Gentleman looking at Something
The Mid-Day Studios
WORKS BY ADOLPHE VALETTE
Self-Portrait
Portrait de la Mère de l’Artiste
The Artist’s Brother Reading
Louise Sewing with two Friends
Dog Surprising a Partridge
Cast of a Faun
Plymouth Grove
Portrait of John Henry Reynolds
Male Nude from the Antique
Life Drawing of a Male Nude with a Cane
Life Drawing of a Bearded Man
Model, Life Class, Manchester School of Art
Nude Model at the Manchester School of Art
Julian
Open Air Art Class
Poster for Marie Brizard & Roger
Portrait of Charles Holmes
Portrait of Joseph Milner
Portrait of Bert Wilson
Portrait of May Aimée Smith
The Irwell
Albert Square, Manchester
Old cab at All Saints
Under Windsor Brigde on the Irwell
York Street leading to Charles Street
Castlegate, Salford
Llandudno
Peasants going Home
Oxford Road, Manchester
Bailey Bridge, Manchester
Manchester Ship Canal, 18 mars 1908
Manchester Ship Canal
Threlfall’s Brewery
Antonio Lamare, Ancoats, Manchester
Poster for an Exhibition of Pictures by A. Valette
Portrait of Rowley Smart
Le Rocher St-Michel au Puy
Le Turban Rose
Street Lights, Manchester
Manchester Street Scene
Self-Portait in a Barn
Romiley
The Mill
Study for the Base of Statues, Albert Square
HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Saint-Etienne, Ecole de Dessin
Photograph of Valette
Offices of Norbury, Natzio & Co
Photograph of L.S. Lowry by Elliot & Fry
Manchester Municipal School of Art
Senior Staff at the Manchester Municipal School of Art
Prizes awarded to L.S. Lowry at the Manchester Municipal School of Art
Class of Drawing from the Antique at the Manchester Municipal School of Art
Lowry’s course records in 1919-20
Valette and his son at Manchester School of Art in 1917
Costume Class at Salford School of Art
Valette and his star students at the Manchester School of Art
Poster for the 1998 exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery A Great Teacher Adolphe Valette and L.S. Lowry
Photograph of L.S. Lowry in front of five pochades by Valette
Valette & Lowry
Many of the paintings by Valette and Lowry can be seen in the Manchester Art Gallery and at The Lowry in Salford.
Manchester Art Gallery
The Lowry
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