A painting of two black cats by a Nova Scotian with the last name of Lewis recently sold for around $18,000 at auction. But it wasn't a Maud Lewis painting — it was a piece by her husband, Everett ...

Lewis, née Dowley, was born in Nova Scotia in 1903, and though her childhood was spent in relative comfort, she ultimately spent most of her adult life in poverty. At the age of 34, she married ...

Folk-art buffs and extremely patriotic Canadians might already know the story of Maud Lewis, an arthritic Nova Scotian who sold her simple but charming paintings out of the tiny house she shared with ...

The letters -- a discovery of rare correspondence into Maud Lewis’s secluded life -- are being sold by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. in Canada, online-only. A few months before his death in 2003, my ...

The simplicity of Maud Lewis' paintings, brushed initially with scrounged paint from local fishermen onto ubiquitous green boards and postcards, continue to evoke feelings of innocence, of child-like ...

1993 enamel on board painting by Canadian folk artist Joe Norris (1924-1996), titled Hauling the Herring Nets (CA$21,240). This 1978 latex and marker on Masonite painting by Canadian folk artist Joe ...

30.5 x 40.6 cm. (12 x 16 in.) The simplicity of Maud Lewis' paintings, brushed initially with scrounged paint from local fishermen onto ubiquitous green boards and postcards, continue to evoke ...

Into our suffocatingly aggrieved world comes “Maudie,” so striking for its portrait of a woman who has every reason to surrender to pessimism but does not. It’s the fact-based story of Maud Lewis ...