Purchased from the artist
Private Collection, Winnipeg
By descent to the present Private Collection, Chicago
Literature
Lance Woolaver, The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis, Halifax, 1996, page 10
Lance Woolaver notes that a seascape of the Yarmouth docks is the subject of the earliest known oil paintings by Lewis, her home counties of Yarmouth and Digby “famous for their fishing fleets.”
According to Maud Lewis scholar, Alan Deacon, this work was likely painted in the late 1940s.
