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Frank, I'm in the U.S. so I don't know if my support will matter. In any case, you have it.
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I am very much in favor of great art staying in public hands and if it doesn't matter that I am from Austria, I'll support the cause!
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A Riverbank is a perfect piece of art, which expresses so much of Lancashire's heritage; and it's presence in the public collection owned by Bury is both fitting and well deserved. As a Bury lad living in Perthshire, I think this campaign is most appropriate, because flickr is a global image community and this great image is threatened. Signed.
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but I think its good to also encourage people's comments, giving a flavour of the concern from locals such as Frank to those from afar such as the US and Australia!
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Frank, I'm in Brazil, so I don't know if my support will be accept.
But in affirmative case, I signed.
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I do favour museums selling off and cashing in on works that are more valuable in the general market than in the collection. Like Henie-Onstad in Norway selling works by Bonnard.
But Lowry's industryscapes clearly belong in a place like Bury.
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Frank, i live in Rome (Italy) btw consider me for a
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I can't believe it!
Sign me up.
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Signed. Bury MBC really should think again.
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You have my support. Mike.
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Good luck with the protest!
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Dadooron [deleted] says:
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Grrr! This makes me sad and angry. If this painting is sold to a private buyer or shipped abroad, that will be yet another piece of our valued heritage and culture which will be lost from public access, possibly forever. Art is for all to see and enjoy; it should not be an item of currency simply used to balance the finances. Bury MBC - please reconsider your decision.
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Should it go to a Manchester Art Gallery?
How do we get wider publicity -- 2 or 3 million supporters might help.
How do I circulate all my contacts?
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Signed. We should aim to keep art available for all to be challenged and provoked.
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What the !!!! are they thinking of?
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Democracy can work.
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ok I have come back to give my support -
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Lowry's Riverbank is an exquisite piece of art and it would be travesty to sell it. Please keep this masterpiece in your museum for enjoyment of generations.
Ames, Iowa, USA
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if we don't keep it in the public, only the select will see it.
signed, ophelia chong
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Frank, of course You have my support. I live in Estonia, nevertheless HTH.
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Frank I agree with you and sign your petition.
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whilst Lowry is not one of my favourite artists, I fully appreciate his importance, and councils selling off "their" treasures worries me greatly, what a lot of money "we" would make if "we" sold off every painting in every gallery in the UK.
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To Bury Council.
Selling heritage to cover budget shortfall is morally, cuturally and politically wrong. This painting belongs to the Local Tax payers of Bury and they should be consulted through the polls before such a controversial decision is taken by a political majority.
I plea with you to reconsider your action - you are selling the heritage of the region for short term gain and this is bad government.
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I cannot believe the council is considering selling such a local treasure. Over the years retaining it will probably bring in more tourist revenue to Bury than selling it will. I urge the council to think again.
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Sorry this is just me gettin back to you now, im so busy haven't had chance to read everything but I trust that its for a good cause. Considered signed from me! Good luck :o)
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Blessings G xxx
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If the Council didn't throw money away on liquid projects such as asylum seekers, hanging baskets and hopeless scroungers, then maybe we could keep hold of some of our heritage!
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as a resident of Bury (Whitefield to be precise) I am horrified to learn of the sale. I feel like marching on to the town hall and demanding to see 'W.A. Cambell' in fact I might just do that.
These philistines should never be allowed in to power in the first place. I shall be choosing who I vote for at the next local elections very carefully.
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As an ex-Prestwich High School girl, and a very proud Lancasterian, I find it very upsetting that the painting could be sold and may end up out of the area it reflects and where it belongs. Hope this site goes some way to convincing those in power that are being foolish.
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The sale of this wonderful painting to raise money by the same council which has overseen the spending of over £25000 on a fountain and glass wall in Prestwich Precinct and which has been fenced off and disused for over 12 months is a disgrace.
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These paintings need to stay in public hands and close to where they were painted...
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I hope they please rethink the jettisoning of a work of art, and a piece of history, merely for the sake of balancing the books.
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I was appalled when last I was in Bury to read in the Bury Times that the 'family jewels' were to be sold off to cover a council budget shortfall. What's next? The Turners should fetch a few bob! Then last week, i was up north again and spotted an item about this petition. As someone born and bred in Bury and a big fan of the Art Gallery, I urge the council not to be so stupid! Rochdale has a Lowry, even Glasgow has a couple - there is no logic in saying because it is a Manchester painting, it doesn't belong in Bury, a town to which Lowry had many connections!
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I'm a member of the very wonderful Art Collection Fund and so give money every year so that pictures like this can stay in appropriate public places in the UK. So I'm heartily pissed off when stupid councils think of doing short termist things like this.
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A loss of this work from public ownership represents yet another step in the erosion of the cultural richness of our national and regional art collections. I think it was Oscar Wilde who defined a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. This kind kind of trade off falls into that definition. Money comes and goes and is essentially ephemeral, but this cannot be retrieved once it has gone.
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Please show some respect to this working class hero!
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I would definitely like to lend my support to this worthy campaign! "A Riverbank" is a memorable example of Lowry's art and should remain in Bury. Thank goodness the Wrigley Collection is protected, otherwise the cultural philistines of Bury Council would no doubt hawk these paintings round the highest bidder! Whilst wasting considerable sums of cash on the unpopular and much-mailgned "Retreat" in Prestwich, they have no problem selling off an important part of the district's artistic heritage. Think again councillors!!
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