Saving Maud
Bringing it Back to Marshalltown, rug hooking, Laure Kenne y Marshalltown Road, oil on masonite, Steven Rhude "As long as I've got a brush in front of me, I'm alright." - Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis Maud Lewis makes this defiant statement at the end of the CBC documentary 'Folk artist Maud Lewis at work in her Nova Scotian home' . [1] In the 1965 profile, CBC's Telescope introduces viewers to the artist and her husband at work in and around their house, and speaks to friends and supporters. It frames Maud and Everett Lewis as anti modernists caught up in the wake of a nostalgic view from the Digby region of a province rapidly embracing changes that came with modernism and the respective economic circumstances influencing rural existence at the time. Aggressively putting Nova Scotia history and folk culture in the shop window for all to see became a government strategy fully illuminated by the work of folk artists wh