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. 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.
The steel memorial replicates the actual size and shape of the original home in Marshalltown where Maud lived with her husband Everett from 1938 to 1970. Maud sold paintings from the small home, which was completely painted inside and out with folksy motifs, for $2 to $3 in the 1940s and 50s, and more as her fame grew in the 60s and 70s.
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 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) in 1984. The AGNS took the house apart and carefully moved it to the gallery in Halifax where it remains on permanent display.
