Against a backdrop of charming paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscape they reflect, Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows celebrates the life and work of one of Canada’s foremost primitive painters. Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Maud Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of thirty. She had never seen a work of art and had never attended an art class but her paintings captured the simple strength, beauty and happiness of the world she saw - a world without shadows.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
013857
Language
English
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Nova Scotia
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Canada
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - Biography
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - Canada
Crafts & Visual Arts → Landscape painting
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters - Canada
Crafts & Visual Arts → Women painters
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)