Maud Lewis: Portrait of Eddie Barnes and Ed Murphy

The painting, entitled Portrait of Eddie Barnes and Ed Murphy, Lobster Fisherman, Bay View, N.S. is painted on beaverboard, a pulp board, which is indicative of the types of media on which Maud Lewis' work was created. Living in poverty for most of her life, she sold her paintings from her small home near Digby, Nova Scotia for as little as $2 and $3. After achieving national attention through an article in the Star Weekly and being featured in a CBC TV documentary, two of her paintings were ordered by the White House during Richard Nixon's presidency. Lewis died in 1970. This painting has been authenticated by JC Miller Antiques and Alan Deacon.

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