Purchased directly from the artist
By descent to the present Private Collection, Newfoundland
Literature
Lance Woolaver, The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis, Halifax, 1996, page 48
Referencing a similar 1965 sleighing scene by the painter, Woolaver explains, “Maud did not make great use of shadow to lend definition to her paintings. At most the shadow of a tree or the track of a sleigh might be represented by a pale blue line.”