While L. S. Lowry would become famous for his industrial townscapes (one of which is shown nearby), his earliest surviving work, made at the age of fourteen, was a pencil drawing of yachts. This was made at Lytham St. Annes, a town combining Lytham and St. Annes-on-Sea on the Lancashire coast, then a popular resort near Blackpool for residents of the large industrial cities of northwest England. Lowry enjoyed vacations there as a child and remained attached to the region for the rest of his life. These two coastal views are both derived from the coastline on or near Lancashire’s Fylde coast. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
