Acquired directly from the artist (circa 1967) by the present Private Collection, Montreal
Literature
Lance Woolaver, Maud Lewis: The Heart on the Door, Halifax, 2016, page 289
In 1937 upon the death of Maud’s mother, Agnes, and the foreclosure of her family home in Yarmouth, Maud left via train to live with her aunt in Marshalltown, Digby—her first excursion on her own, propelling her out of childhood and into a more independent phase of her life. Throughout her childhood, Maud loved watching the train from the family home, enjoying the hustle and bustle of the locomotive and people boarding and disembarking. In an excerpt from Maud Lewis: The Heart on the Door, it is recalled that “the railroad trestle on the Flat Iron cast blue shadows on the pale blue road. You turned right on the highway to the west. The steeple of the Baptist church appeared against the clouds and sky.”
