Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows

Directed by Diane Beaudry · Starring Niki Lipman · 1976

Against a backdrop of her vivid paintings and the Nova Scotia landscapes they portray, this portrait traces the life of Maud Lewis, a self-taught folk artist who turned to painting while living with severe arthritis.

A tender portrait of a self-taught painter who filled her world with colour and left out the shadows.

Set against a background of her paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscapes they depict, this short documentary is a portrait of the life and work of one of Canada's foremost primitive painters, Maud Lewis. Emerg

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