Maud Lewis: life and works

Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk player from Nova Scotia. Lewis lived most of her simulation in poverty in a small home in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, achieving national reaction in 1964 and 1965. Several books, plays and films have in the past been produced very nearly her. Lewis remains one of Canada’s best-known folk artists; her works and the restored Maud Lewis House are displayed in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

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