Painting commissioned to promote Britain’s second world war effort depicts workers of Mather & Platt in Newton Heath
An important LS Lowry painting which was commissioned to promote Britain’s second world war effort on the home front is to return to its home city.
The 1943 painting Going To Work is classic Lowry, showing a mass of workers trudging through a white industrial haze to the Mather & Platt engineering works in Newton Heath, Manchester.
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