Maude Lewis was born in Ohio, Yarmouth Country, Nova Scotia. She started painting Christmas cards with her mother and then sold them on the streets of Yarmouth. When her parents died she went to live... Read full biography
Maude Lewis was born in Ohio, Yarmouth Country, Nova Scotia. She started painting Christmas cards with her mother and then sold them on the streets of Yarmouth. When her parents died she went to live with an aunt in Digby, Nova Scotia. In 1938 she married Everett Lewis and moved to a small one-room... Read full biography
Maude Lewis was born in Ohio, Yarmouth Country, Nova Scotia. She started painting Christmas cards with her mother and then sold them on the streets of Yarmouth. When her parents died she went to live with an aunt in Digby, Nova Scotia. In 1938 she married Everett Lewis and moved to a small one-room cabin near No.2 Highway west of Digby, at a place called Marshalltown. Her husband sold fish from village to village and she sometimes sold some of her cards. He encouraged her to paint and bought... Read full biography
Maude Lewis was born in Ohio, Yarmouth Country, Nova Scotia. She started painting Christmas cards with her mother and then sold them on the streets of Yarmouth. When her parents died she went to live with an aunt in Digby, Nova Scotia. In 1938 she married Everett Lewis and moved to a small one-room cabin near No.2 Highway west of Digby, at a place called Marshalltown. Her husband sold fish from village to village and she sometimes sold some of her cards. He encouraged her to paint and bought her artist's supplies and cut small pieces of plywood that would allow her to paint with her polio-afflicted arms and arthritic condition. She passed her days painting in the doorway of her house and people began to know her and to buy her work. Her... Read full biography
Maude Lewis was born in Ohio, Yarmouth Country, Nova Scotia. She started painting Christmas cards with her mother and then sold them on the streets of Yarmouth. When her parents died she went to live with an aunt in Digby, Nova Scotia. In 1938 she married Everett Lewis and moved to a small one-room cabin near No.2 Highway west of Digby, at a place called Marshalltown. Her husband sold fish from village to village and she sometimes sold some of her cards. He encouraged her to paint and bought her artist's supplies and cut small pieces of plywood that would allow her to paint with her polio-afflicted arms and arthritic condition. She passed her days painting in the doorway of her house and people began to know her and to buy her work. Her story soon became famous; in 1965 an article in the Moncton Times referenced her story. The same year CBC-TV's Tele... Read full biography
Maud Lewis - Artist Info
About Maud Lewis: Books
Books & Publications (17)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
For Folk's Sake: Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia
2016
Morton, Erin
424 pages (color)
Maud Lewis: The Heart on the Door
2016
Woolaver Lance Gerard
491 pages
The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists (Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Art Gallery of Hamilton)
2015
Boutilier, Alicia and Tobi Bruce
173 pages (color)
Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists
2008
Prakash, A.K.
409 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Biographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
250 pages
The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure
2001
Hamilton, Lauire
118 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art
1999
McKendry, Blake
297 pages (color)
A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms
1997
McKendry, Blake
242 pages (color)
Maud Lewis World Without Shadows
1996
Woolaver Lance
148 pages (color)
The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis (Art Gallery of Nova Scotia)
1996
Woolaver, Lance and Bob Brooks
91 pages (color)
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
A Dictionary of Folk Artists in Canada: From the 17th Century to the Present
1988
McKendry, Blake
287 pages (color)
A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists (Encyclopedia)
1985
Kobayashi, Terry; Michael Bird
241 pages (color)
Folk Art of Nova Scotia: A Traveling Exhibition of 20th Century Folk Art of Nova Scotia (Art Gallery of Nova Scotia) (Exhibition catalog)