Bottom right corner and on reverse titled : “Garden Flowers” dated. Image paper glued on board measures approx 13 1/4″ x 15 1/2″ gallery framed. Galerie D’Art Michel Bigue. Born in South Ohio, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Maud Lewis is renowned for her bright paintings of Maritime rural life. Having contracted polio, and suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Lewis left school at the age of 14 and lived a confined but happy life at home. Following the death of her parents, Lewis moved to Marshalltown, Digby County, Nova Scotia to live with her aunt. It was there that she met her future husband, Everett Lewis, a fish peddler. They married in 1938 and moved into his small cabin. Due to her small stature and her arthritis, Maud was unable to do housework. However, she helped with the household by creating cards and paintings for income. With his encouragement, Lewis began to produce more paintings. Her work grew in popularity, and buyers began to come directly to her home to acquire her paintings. Despite her lack of formal training, Lewiss depictions of rural life, animals and landscapes, drawn from her everyday experiences, had an irresistible charm and vitality. She often used oil paints straight from the tube and rarely mixed her pigments, and her colourful work expressed the essence of Maritime life. Her work gained popularity to the point that she was featured in numerous newspapers, such as the Moncton Times, the Atlantic Advocate and the Star Weekly, and she also starred in a CBC-TV Telescope program in 1965. In 1967, her work was shown at the Centennial Exhibition of Primitive Art in New Brunswick at Beaverbrook House, St. Prominent collectors of her work include R. Stanfield, the former premier of Nova Scotia and Richard Nixon, the former President of the United States. Her paintings still hang in the White House and the Legislative Building of Nova Scotia. Lewis passed away at the Digby General Hospital at the age of 67 in 1970. She has become one of Canadas most well-known and endearing folk artists. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has a large collection of her paintings, and installed her original house in the gallery as part of a permanent exhibition of her work. In 2016, a film was released on her life entitled Maudie. The painting was wonderfully executed and is a great example of Canadian impressionism believed to be by Maud Lewis. The painting image itself measures approx 13 1/4″ x 15 1/2″ and it is signed bottom right corner and believed to be by the artist Hortense Gordon. It has been professionally cleaned, varnished. Painting is an old oil on canvas laid on masonite board. It is unknown if this was from the size the artist directly the way she painted on or if it was cut and resized from a elector/ gallery. Comes not framed , Please see photos for more details. Heffel’s Top Results. Please note that most of the items we sell are vintage or antique, and therefore they have some imperfections due to age, wear, etc. Anything I consider significant I would mention in the description. Also note that we deal in fine art, not a framing business. We examine carefully the paintings and report any issues detected but the frames we sell as complementary in as found as is condition. We are not responsible if you open up an item and damage it yourself. The item “Canadian listed impressionism folk art rare Maud Lewis 1903 1970″ is in sale since Friday, December 01, 2017. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “8ca0638″ and is located in Ottawa. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Features: Framed
- Color: Multi-Color
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Width (Inches): 15 1/2
- Height (Inches): 13 1/4
- Painting Surface: Paper
- Style: Impressionism
- Subject: Landscape
- Medium: mixed medium watercolour/ Pastel?
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Date of Creation: 1950-1969
- Originality: unknown
- Artist: Maud Lewis
- Year: C. 1964
