The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure Hamilton Laurie Paperback
The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure Hamilton Laurie Paperback For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. By the time the tour was over,…
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The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure Hamilton Laurie Paperback
For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with her delightful work.Between 1938, when she married Everett Lewis, until her death in 1970, Maud Lewis lived in a tiny one-room house near Digby, Nova Scotia. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada.
Her house was a joy to behold, and it became a magnet for tourists as well as a focal point in her village. Over the years, she painted the doors inside and out, the windowpanes, the walls and cupboards, the wallpaper, the little staircase to the sleeping loft, the woodstove, the breadbox, the dustpan, almost everything her hand touched. In 1979, after Everett Lewis died, the Maud Lewis Painted House