 [ Large Image ] | Maud Lewis: Creating an Icon Ray Cronin 2020 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 9781554472062 / Trade paper / 64 pp A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 5 More than any other Canadian artist, Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis (1901–70) is defined as much by her life as by her art. While her story was one of poverty, hardship, physical disability, and chronic pain, it was also one of triumph of character and creativity over circumstance. Catering primarily to the tourists who drove past her tiny house each summer, Lewis’s bright, primitive paintings of oxen, cats, boats, and rural scenes were both a response and an invitation to nostalgia. In this essay, Ray Cronin explores how Lewis’s style and imagery became iconic, synonymous both with the way Nova Scotians’s viewed themselves and the way the province would promote itself to the world. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Herménégilde Chiasson: In Acadie Ray Cronin 2024 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $22.95 CAN 9781554472604 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Alan Syliboy: Culture is Our Medicine Ray Cronin 2022 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $22.95 CAN 9781554472468 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Colleen Wolstenholme: Complications Ray Cronin 2021 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554472147 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | John Greer: Hard Thought Ray Cronin 2019 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554471980 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind Ray Cronin 2019 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554471881 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting Ray Cronin 2018 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554471874 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Mary Pratt: Still Light Ray Cronin 2018 / Canadian Art Biography, Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN 9781554471805 / Trade paper / 64 pp |
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