from one of his many holidays in Berwick-upon-Tweed is to go on public display for the first time. But the sketch is lucky to have survived: it was kept in a shoe box for 43 years, emerging somewhat creased because its recipient had little idea of Lowry’s significance.
Now framed and owned by a private collector, it will – along with other Lowry works from his four decades of holidaying on the Northumberland coast – be seen in an exhibition,At least Mather kept her one Lowry drawing. Another hotel colleague, Marjorie Ellison, was given several sketches by her guest. “But I used to put his drawings, including a portrait he did of me, into the bin,” Ellison told Edwin Bowes, whose 1998 pamphlet about Lowry and Berwick is also in the archive.
Lowry first came to Berwick in summer 1935 while still working as a rent collector for a property company – a job he held until retiring in 1952. “He seems to have come on his own by train, and always stayed at the Castle Hotel as it was very close to the station,” says James Lowther, head of visual arts at Berwick’s Maltings Trust, which manages the Granary.
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