Maud Lewis Memorial Park
Come experience the site where Maud created her magical art!
The Maud Lewis Memorial Park is about 3 minutes west of Digby (Exit 26) on Highway 101 in Marshalltown, on the righthand side of the road when travelling west (see Google Maps link below for directions).
The site includes a colourful perennial garden, picnic table and benches, and three interpretive panels: one featuring Maud’s story and art legacy, a second about the restoration and conservation of her original home, and a third about the steel replica memorial.
Fans of Maud's art may also be interested in visiting her gravesite.
The steel memorial in Marshalltown marks the site where Maud lived with her husband Everett from 1938 to 1970 in a small home completely painted inside and out with folksy motifs.
Maud sold paintings from the house for $2 to $3 in the 1940s and 50s, more as her fame grew in the 60s and 70s.
In May 2017 one of her paintings, found in a thrift shop in Ontario, sold for $45,000.
After her husband’s death in 1979, residents formed the Maud Lewis Painted House Society to save the house and then sold it to the AGNS in 1984.
The AGNS took the house apart and moved it to the gallery in Halifax where it is on permanent display.
They marked the site where Maud lived with a steel memorial replicating the actual size and shape of the original.
Architect Brian MacKay-Lyons intended the installation to convey the somber reality of Maud’s life while the colour highlights suggest her childlike vision of the world.
The Maud Lewis Memorial Park is about 3 minutes west of Digby (Exit 26) on Highway 101 in Marshalltown, on the righthand side of the road when travelling west (see Google Maps link below for directions).
The site includes a colourful perennial garden, picnic table and benches, and three interpretive panels: one featuring Maud’s story and art legacy, a second about the restoration and conservation of her original home, and a third about the steel replica memorial.
Fans of Maud's art may also be interested in visiting her gravesite.
The steel memorial in Marshalltown marks the site where Maud lived with her husband Everett from 1938 to 1970 in a small home completely painted inside and out with folksy motifs.
Maud sold paintings from the house for $2 to $3 in the 1940s and 50s, more as her fame grew in the 60s and 70s.
In May 2017 one of her paintings, found in a thrift shop in Ontario, sold for $45,000.
After her husband’s death in 1979, residents formed the Maud Lewis Painted House Society to save the house and then sold it to the AGNS in 1984.
The AGNS took the house apart and moved it to the gallery in Halifax where it is on permanent display.
They marked the site where Maud lived with a steel memorial replicating the actual size and shape of the original.
Architect Brian MacKay-Lyons intended the installation to convey the somber reality of Maud’s life while the colour highlights suggest her childlike vision of the world.
Below are directions from the Maud Lewis Memorial Park to the North Range cemetery where Maud is buried.