The Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis never sold a work for more than $10 during her lifetime. But on May 14 at an Ontario auction, one of her paintings fetched C$350,000 ($272,000), more than ten times ...

Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis (photo by Duncan Deyoung, courtesy Mongrel Media) Maudie, directed by Aisling Walsh, depicts the life of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis (1903–1970). The film does not ...

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 ...

Lewis sold paintings to passing tourists for $2. Now, they go for as much as $20,000 and her entire house is on view in a museum. Maudie tells the... Home Is Where The Art Is: The Unlikely Story Of ...

Maud Lewis, “Untitled (White Cats with Blue Eyes)” (ca. 1965), oil on board, 13 3/4 × 15 15/16 in. (Private Collection, Nova Scotia, image courtesy McMichael Canadian Art Collection) KLEINBURG, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The movie “Maudie,” a fact-based drama about the late Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis and her strange relationship with her husband, is a charming tale — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many a North American folk artist, Maud Lewis’ oeuvre — which consists of countless paintings of fuzzy cats, crude-looking ...

Left to right: Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis and Ethan Hawke as Everett Lewis. Photo by Duncan Deyoung, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Sally Hawkins gives a winning performance as Canadian folk ...

12 x 14 in. (30.5 x 35.6 cm.) With her signature bright colours and clean, simple style, Nova Scotia’s Maud Lewis is considered an iconic folk artist and a Canadian treasure. She spent her days ...

The movie "Maudie" is the true story of a painter whose work is so exuberant you'd never guess what a difficult life she lived. In a moment, NPR's Susan Stamberg will tell us about the art and legacy ...

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