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 ...

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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 ...

While artwork by Maud Lewis routinely sells for tens of thousands of dollars, rising interest in other Nova Scotian folk ...

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 ...

The late London, Ontario artist John Kinnear traded his Maud Lewis (1903-1970) painting titled The Lobsterman to jeweler John Ellington (pictured here) for a sapphire tie tack in the 1970s. John ...

Georgian period (circa 1820s) Canadian breakfast table in mahogany and figured mahogany attributed to Thomas Nisbet (Saint John, New Brunswick) (CA$16,520). Cobalt cut overlay kerosene banquet stand ...

Maud Lewis was a Canadian folk artist known for her distinctively flat and brightly colored paintings. Her small-scale depictions of animals and landscapes formed decorative microcosms of rural ...

Exquisite mixed media diorama by Adelard Brousseau of Quebec titled Maple Sugar Time (circa 1930), 36 ½ inches long by 21 inches tall by 24 ½ inches wide (CA$10,620). Acrylic on paper by Canadian ...