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Lowry used many mediums other than pencil for his drawings including chalk.  Lowry’s street scenes are peopled with figures and crowds: All the figures in Lowry’s images are essentially strangers to one another, each one cut off from the next, rarely touching each other children playing, men standing listlessly on street corners. Lowry maintained that these people were nevertheless ‘alone’, arguing that ‘crowds are the most lonely thing of all’. .

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