Bottom right corner as (Maud lewis) and on reverse titled. White Daisy Flowers dated. C 1964 and signed Maud Lewis. Image appears to be canvas or paper stock board that is an oil that is glued onto a wood masonite board measures approx 8 1/8″ x 11 1/8″ Professionally gallery framed in glass and matted. Quebec collector, Kastel gallery. Cand Listed Maud Lewis Biography. Maud Lewis used bright colours in her paintings, and subjects were often of flowers, oxen teams, horses, birds, deer, or cats. Many of her paintings are of outdoor scenes, like Cape Island boats bobbing on the water, horses pulling sleigh, skaters, portraits of dogs, cats, deer, birds, and cows. Her paintings were inspired by childhood memories of the landscape and people around Yarmouth and South Ohio as well as Digby locations such as Point Farm and Bayview. 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. Maud Lewis would often paint similar paintings in one session each varying slightly different than the last. She often painted multiple same paintings due to the velocity of paint drying fast and would re paint same image until she felt it was perfect. Due to her arthritis and age often her works came out childish and sloppy so she would re-due them over again. She would often paint on local reused material from her area including drift wood sea shells and various wood booards and paper. Often she would then glue the paper works or canvas to a board to have framed hung to sell to tourists. Only in the last three or four years of Lewis’ life did her paintings begin to sell for seven to ten dollars. She achieved national attention as a result of an article in the Toronto-based Star Weekly in 1964, and in 1965, she was featured on CBC-TV’s. Two of Lewis’ paintings were ordered by the White House in the 1970s during Richard Nixons’s presidency. Unfortunately, her arthritis deprived her from completing many of the orders that resulted from the national exposure. 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. 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. We list all our items as is as found the we got them. W e do not guarantee authenticity or suppl y a COA. 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 oil impressionism folk art rare Maud Lewis 1903-1970 Nova Scotia” is in sale since Friday, January 26, 2018. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “8ca0638″ and is located in Ottawa. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Artist: signed Maud lewis
- Painting Surface: paper/canvas glued on wood board? see photo
- Features: Framed
- Year: dated on back 1964 and signed maud lewis
- Color: Multi-Color
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Width (Inches): approx 11 1/8″
- Height (Inches): approx 8 1/8″
- Style: Folk Art impressionism
- Subject: folk art still life
- Medium: oil
- Date of Creation: 1950-1969
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Size: Small (up to 12in.)
