Any LS Lowry show is inevitably presented to the public as a resurrection of a figure spurned by the art world, an eccentric excluded by a snobbish metropolitan elite. In fact you could just as easily argue that he is the definitive British artist of the 20th century, more instantly recognisable to more people than Tracey Emin or Jacob Epstein, David Hockney or Damien Hirst.
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