After leaving school Lowry would spend his evenings taking private art lessons in antique and freehand drawing. In 1905 he secured a place at the prestigious Manchester School of Art, where he studied under the French Impressionist Pierre Adolphe Valette. For the rest of his life he stressed the importance of these formative experiences in his evolution as an artist. These two drawings were executed as part of Lowry's studies. Drawing from casts of classical marble sculptures had been the traditional way of learning to draw for centuries, and "The Discus Thrower" is a typical example of this sort of exercise.

A lovely detail about these drawings is the plethora of tiny pinholes that crowd the corners of the sheet as Lowry pinned it up and took it down over and over again. These images much have been important reference points for Lowry that he kept returning to, working drawings that allowed him to refine his practice. To look at these drawings is to watch the legend of this great British artist being born.

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