Education
After leaving school, Lowry began a career working for the Pall Mall company, later collecting rents. He would spend some time in his lunch hour at Buile Hill Park.
Lowry also took private art lessons in the evenings on antique and freehand drawing. In 1905, he secured a place at the Manchester School of Art, where he studied under the French Impressionist artist Pierre Adolphe Valette. Lowry was full of praise for Valette as a teacher, remarking "I cannot over-estimate the effect on me of the coming into this drab city of Adolphe Valette, full of French impressionists, aware of everything that was going on in Paris". In 1915 he graduated to the Salford Royal Technical College (now the University of Salford) where he continued his studies until 1925. Here, he developed his interest in industrial landscapes and began to establish his style.
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