Antique

Maud Lewis, who never had any formal art training, painted the scenes she saw around her home in Nova Scotia. She painted Coastal Scene with Gulls on particleboard in the 1960s.

There's no rain in her clouds, no gray in her shadows; Maud Lewis' small paintings are bright with sunshine, and filled with blue skies, crystal snow and calm waters. Now, a new movie tells the true story of a painter from Nova Scotia whose joyful works hardly hint at the difficult life she led.

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