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Home Is Where The Art Is: The Unlikely Story Of Folk Artist Maud Lewis

Lewis sold paintings to passing tourists for $2. Now, they go for as much as $20,000 and her entire house is on view in a museum. Maudie tells the true story of the untrained artist from Nova Scotia.
Lewis used leftover house paint to brighten the walls of the tiny home in Marshalltown that she shared with her husband.

There's no rain in her clouds, no gray in her shadows; Maud Lewis' small paintings are bright with sunshine, and filled with blue skies, crystal snow and calm waters. Now, a new movie tells the true story of a painter from Nova Scotia whose joyful works hardly hint at the difficult life she

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