Going to Work

Going to Work
ArtistL. S. Lowry
Year1943
MediumOil on canvas
MovementNaïve art
Dimensions45.7 cm × 60.9 cm (18 in × 24 in)
LocationImperial War Museum North, Manchester
AccessionArt.IWM ART LD 3074
Websitewww.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/17026

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.[1]

  1. ^ "Going to Work". Art UK. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2023.