elbowcrookerLink below to a Guardian article about a new book about artist Eric Tucker written by his nephew Joe Tucker.
Eric Tucker's unsentimental depictions of working class life in post war Britain show a world that I remember from my childhood in the 1950s.
‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub | Art and design | The Guardian
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‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub
He repaired his car with Sellotape and kept his trousers up with rope. But Eric Tucker had a hidden life – painting drinkers, smokers and factory-workers without saccharine or sentiment. Now a book celebrates his extraordinary life