Going to Work | |
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Artist | L. S. Lowry |
Year | 1943 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Naïve art |
Dimensions | 45.7 cm × 60.9 cm (18 in × 24 in) |
Location | Imperial War Museum North, Manchester |
Accession | Art.IWM ART LD 3074 |
Website | www |
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]