Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows (1976)
Title
Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows (1976)
Subject
Painters--Canada--Biography
Naive art
Primitivism in art
URL
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Description
Content description from IMDB.com
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236481/):
Set against a background of her paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscapes they depict, this short documentary is a portrait of the life and work of one of Canada's foremost primitive painters, Maud Lewis. Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of 30. She had never seen a work of art and had never attended an art class but her paintings captured the simple strength, beauty and happiness of the world she saw - a world without shadows.
Ephemera: none available
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(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236481/):
Set against a background of her paintings and the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, landscapes they depict, this short documentary is a portrait of the life and work of one of Canada's foremost primitive painters, Maud Lewis. Emerging from her youth crippled with arthritis, Lewis escaped into her painting at the age of 30. She had never seen a work of art and had never attended an art class but her paintings captured the simple strength, beauty and happiness of the world she saw - a world without shadows.
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Maud Lewis (herself - archive)
Niki Lipman (narrator)
Kathleen Shannon (producer)
Diane Beaudry (director and editor)
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Date
1976
Citation
“Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows (1976),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed November 17, 2025, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/72.