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Maud Lewis

November 11, 2021 - January 9, 2022

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One of Canada’s most beloved folk artists, Maud Lewis was famous in her lifetime for her brightly-coloured and endearing paintings of rural Nova Scotia. Working from her cabin on the side of the highway in Marshalltown, in Digby County, she produced hundreds of small works that captured aspects of country life that was rapidly changing.

Until now, the story of her difficult life has dominated the discussion of her art: her triumph over her physical challenges and poverty, the harsh treatment she received at the hands of her family, and her alliance by chance with her husband Everett Lewis, who enabled her successful painting career over many decades.

This show, however, stresses the aesthetic aspect of Maud Lewis’s achievement, looking carefully at her serial repetition of images and motifs across her career, and the dizzying variety that she brings to the problem of picture-making. From her black cats and kittens to her cart horses and oxen hauling logs, to her quayside scenes of ships in port and the Maritime landscape in all seasons, Maud Lewis made paintings that still delight in their optimism and buoyant vitality.

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Header Image: Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Cows Grazing Among Flowering Spruce, 1967, oil on Masonite. Collection of CFFI Ventures Inc. as collected by John Risley © Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Curated by Sarah Milroy
Organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

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