An artist is being sought to create a piece to be ‘displayed prominently’ at an upcoming LS Lowry exhibition . Bolton Council has advertised the commission for an artist to create illustrations for a visual story map showing the key features of a walk the artist LS Lowry used to do from his home in Pendlebury to Bolton.
The illustrations will feature in an exhibition opening at Bolton Museum on March 25 built around Lowry’s famous ‘Going to the Match’ painting, which shows the old Bolton Wanderers stadium at Burnden Park. The artist will also be asked to portray some Bolton football fans in a ‘cigarette card’ style for the art show.
A job description posted on the Arts Council England website, said: “In the 1910s and 1920s, Lowry used to walk from his home in Pendlebury to Bolton, passing cotton mills, collieries and Bolton Wanderers’ Burnden Park stadium on the way. “In later life, he said that the walk gave him the idea of painting ‘the industrial scene’.
