# Maude Lewis artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/maude-lewis/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:08:05.076Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Movements: Folk art, Canadian folk art
- Common media: Painting, Hand-painted cards, Decorated domestic surfaces

## Portrait

![Maude Lewis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Maud_Lewis.jpg/1280px-Maud_Lewis.jpg)
Ron Cogswell · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maud_Lewis.jpg

## About Maude Lewis

Maude Lewis is the public-page name used here for Maud Kathleen Lewis (1903–1970), the Canadian folk artist generally known as Maud Lewis. Closely associated with Nova Scotia, she lived for much of her life in a small house in Marshalltown and developed an immediately recognizable body of cheerful, compact pictures. Public biographical sources emphasize landscapes, animals, and flowers, often presenting an optimistic, nostalgic view of her home province. Lewis also painted cards and small-format works, while the walls and furnishings of her house became an extension of her art. She gained national recognition in Canada during 1964 and 1965 and is now regarded as one of the country's best-known folk artists. Collectors may encounter her name in connection with paintings, works on paper, painted cards, exhibitions, books, and the preserved decorated house displayed by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Because her imagery is widely recognized, attribution still requires careful examination of the individual object.

## Common works and media

Public biographical sources describe paintings of Nova Scotia landscapes, animals, and flowers, together with hand-painted cards and other small-format pictures. Lewis also decorated surfaces within her home. The present Appraisily auction sample does not establish a reliable breakdown by medium or category, so an encountered work should be classified from its physical materials and construction rather than from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily market sample is exceptionally thin: it contains one matched, priced public auction record from 2012, with a reported realization of $7,800. That single observation is not enough to establish a dependable price band, category distribution, or current trend. An appraisal should instead compare genuinely similar works by medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration history, provenance, inscriptions, and attribution confidence. Any edition information or catalogue references should also be checked when relevant. Reported auction totals may use different fee conventions, while private sales and later attribution changes may be absent from public feeds. The available result is therefore a reference point, not a stand-alone valuation.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may be incomplete, and the current matched sample for this artist is very limited.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479154
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/65644391/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/235010693
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Lewis
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Lewis
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Lewis
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maude-lewis/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maud_Lewis.jpg