Coming from the Mill

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Coming from the Mill is a famous industrial landscape painting by L. S. Lowry depicting crowds of workers leaving a factory in a stylized, northern English mill town scene.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf industrial landscape painting
painting
artForm easel painting
artist L. S. Lowry NERFINISHED
associatedWith Lancashire mill towns
Salford NERFINISHED
colorCharacteristic dominance of greys and browns
muted tones
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator L. S. Lowry NERFINISHED
depicts crowds of workers leaving a factory
factory workers
industrial buildings
northern English mill town
smokestacks
streets
terraced houses
depictsTime workers leaving the mill at the end of the day
genre industrial art
landscape painting
hasCompositionalFeature central mill building
clustered chimneys and smoke
procession-like movement of figures
hasCulturalSignificance key image of British industrial heritage
widely reproduced in prints and posters
hasMedium canvas
oil paint
hasPerspective street-level view of mill workers
hasStyle limited colour palette
simplified figures
stylized representation
hasTheme everyday life
labour and industry
urban working class
inception early 20th century
isFamousFor characteristic ‘matchstick’ figures
iconic depiction of industrial northern England
languageOfTitle English
locationOfSetting a northern English mill town
mainSubject industrial life in northern England
working-class community
movement Modern art
Naïve art NERFINISHED
Northern School (English art) NERFINISHED
notableWorkOf L. S. Lowry NERFINISHED
portrays post-industrial revolution urban environment
social atmosphere of factory life

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L. S. Lowry notableWork Coming from the Mill