Maud Lewis Origional Oxen In Winter Start Price USD 8,800.00 Current Price USD 8,800.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, August 20, 2008 End Time Saturday, August 30, 2008 Location Clementsport Nova Scotia See more about 'Maud Lewis Origional Oxen In Winter' Description This is an origional Maud Lewis, 12 X 16 Mounted. Signature is faded but has been authenticated.   "Maud Lewis lived a life that few would envy. Born in rural Nova Scotia in 1903, Lewis suffered from a series of birth defects that left her fingers painfully deformed, her shoulders hunched and her chin pressed into her chest. She spent most of her adult life as a virtual recluse in a cramped one-room house that had no running water or electricity. For more than three decades, the diminutive Lewis eked out a living rendering colorful oil paintings on the most primitive of surfaces - including particleboard, cardboard and wallpaper - which she sold for a few dollars each. Her miserly husband, Everett, often squirrelled away her slim profits, hiding the cash under the floorboards or in jars buried in the garden. At the age of 67, Lewis - who had suffered lung damage due to constant exposure to paint fumes and wood smoke - contracted pneumonia and died in hospital. She was buried in a child’s coffin and laid to rest in a pauper’s grave. The tragic circumstances of Lewis’s life do not, however, tell the whole story. Though painfully shy, Lewis had by all accounts a sweet disposition and a smile that charmed everyone who visited her brightly decorated home in the village of Marshalltown, on Nova Scotia’s northwestern shore. More to the point, she left behind hundreds of exuberant paintings and artifacts that, since her death in 1970, have turned her into an icon of the so-called folk art movement - Canada’s own Grandma Moses. About 200 of her works - playfully depicting oxen, horse-drawn sleigh rides and other scenes of rural life - form the nucleus of an exhibition that begins an 18-month national tour after wrapping up a hugely successful 11-week run at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on April 13. In her home province, the retrospective is part of a Maud mania that in the past year has spawned a book on her life and art, a successful bid to restore her original home, and even a line of Maud merchandise - coffee cups, aprons, hasty notes and the like, all bearing her images. "People are intrigued by her because she created these beautiful, joyful paintings in spite of the adversities she faced," says Bernard Riordon, director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. "It’s an example of the triumph of the human spirit." Place a Bid!