Nova Scotians will honour folk artist Maud Lewis this week, whose colourful, lively paintings of rural life gained her national and international recognition towards the end of her life and in the decades after her death. Culture and Heritage Minister Leo Glavine said Lewis’s works encapsulate what life was like in a rural Nova Scotian community in the early-to-mid 20th century. “Maud Lewis has given us an incredible rich tapestry about what our province is about, in terms of its pastoral and rural settings, and its closeness — surrounded, actually — by the sea,” he said. “Many of the problems that Maud Lewis went through, incuding spousal abuse and poverty, are still with us. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is home to the largest public collection of Maud Lewis works in the world, including the house.

Source: National Post February 17, 2019 22:52 UTC