Harold Cromwell, one of Canada’s top folk artists, drew images from memory of a Depression-era childhood spent in Weymouth Falls, a rural Nova Scotia community founded by Black Loyalists in 1783. His exquisite, densely detailed drawings in black ink on paper, wood and Royal Chinet paper plates, depict everyday life in farmyards, on roadsides and in Weymouth with its long-gone sawmills, trains and bridges. The pictures in Back in The Old Days: The Art of Harold Cromwell, exhibited this fall by ARTSPLACE, Annapolis Royal, are laced with humour and have titles referring to “The Good Old Days” or “The Hungry Days.”
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