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A death in the family, 28" x 32"
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Following is the obituary of the artist, which appeared in The Washington Post, November 12, 2004
Maud Florance Gatewood (It is possible that Maud (note spelling) was named for her Aunt Maud Florance.)
Maud Florance Gatewood (Age 70) of
Chapel Hill, NC, died Monday, November 8, 2004, at Hospice Home of
Alamance-Caswell. She was born in Yanceyville, NC on January 8, 1934,
the only child of the late John Yancey Gatewood and Mary Lea Florance
Gatewood. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, November
14, 2004, at the Yanceyville Presbyterian Church, Yanceyville, NC
officiated by the Rev. Marie P. Reed, Rev. Cephus Lea and Chancellor
Patricia A. Sullivan, with interment to follow in the Yanceyville
Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Upon completion of services, a celebration
of life reception will be held at the Gatewood House, which is now the
Caswell County Historical Museum.
Gatewood was arguably the most
important living North Carolina painter and considered by art
historians, curators, museum directors and collectors as one of the most
important painters in North Carolina history. Maud Gatewood's artwork
is familiar to museum-goers throughout the South. She has been a
prominent figure throughout the southeastern United States during her
55-year career.
An astute student, her interest in art began as a
youngster in her hometown of Yanceyville, NC, studying then in 1945 at
Averett College in nearby Danville, VA. At the age of 16, after having
skipped two grades of school, she entered what is now the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her B.A. in fine arts in
1954. One year later, she received her M.A. in painting from Ohio State
University. She continued her education as an instructor beginning in
1956 at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL, and then at Texas
Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. She then received a Fullbright
Grant to study art history and painting at the Akademie Fur Angewandte
Kunst and an extended Fullbright to study with Oskar Kokoschka in
Salzburg, Austria.
Her educational years were interspersed with
traveling the world, that was the beginning of a life-long penchant,
even at her death she was planning her next trip. In 1964, she returned
to the U.S. where she joined the faculty of the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte and served as founding head of the university art
department. She then went on to teach at Central Piedmont Community
College before returning to her home, Caswell County, where she was a
professor for many years at Averett University. During her academic
career, she also served as a visiting professor and artist at the
University of Cincinnati, Davidson College, and the State University of
New York, Oswego. Ms. Gatewood was honored by her alma mater, the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with an honorary Doctorate
in Fine Arts in 1999.
On her life's path of discovery in
painting, Ms. Gatewood was awarded the North Carolina Federation of
Women's Club Scholarship in 1953; a painting award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters in
1972; the North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 1980; the
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art NEAA Grant 1981; the
prestigious North Carolina Award in Fine Arts (Governor's Award) in
1984; the North Carolina Poster Award Commission for the U.S. Olympic
Festival in 1987 and in 1993 she represented North Carolina in the
Absolute statehood campaign featured in USA Today and Newsweek.
She
exhibited widely in the Southeastern United States and was honored with
a retrospective exhibition covering 40 years of painting, organized by
the Weatherspoon Gallery of Art at UNC-G in Greensboro, NC. The
exhibition toured from 1994-95 in what is now the Cameron Museum of Art
in Wilmington, NC as well as the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC;
Albany Museum of Art in Albany, GA and the Gallery of Art and Design at
NC State University in Raleigh, NC.
She represented the State of
North Carolina in the exhibition Nine from North Carolina the National
Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC in 1989. She was also
featured in the 1988 Biannual at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte,
NC; the Southern Arts Federation exhibition tour, Three Approaches to
the Figurative, 1986; a drawing exhibition at the Knight Gallery at
Spirit Square in Charlotte in 1989; an exhibition at the Greenville
Museum of Art in Greenville, SC in 1984 featuring Ten Years - Ten
Artists; Greenhill Center for North Carolina Arts in Greensboro, NC in
1984; Painting in the South the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA 1983-85
and a touring exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 1983.
One
of North Carolina's most collected and sought after artists, Maud
Gatewood's public collections include BB&T, Charlotte, NC; Baltimore
Gas and Electric Company, Baltimore, MD; Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, RTP,
NC; Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA; Nasher Art Museum at Duke University,
Durham, NC; Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Fayetteville Museum of Art,
Fayetteville, NC; First Union Bank, Charlotte, NC; Smith-Kline Glaxo,
RTP, NC; Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN; IBM Corporation, Charlotte, NC;
Miller Brewing Company, Eden, NC; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC;
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; National Gallery for
Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Nations Bank, N.A., Charlotte,
Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC; Philip Morris Company, New York, NY; RJ
Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC; Sprint, Wake Forest, NC;
Kenan-Flagler School of Business, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC; Breakers Hotel,
Palm Beach, FL and Central Carolina Bank, Durham, NC.
She was
represented by various commercial galleries throughout her career. She
was previously associated most often with the former David Heath Gallery
in Atlanta, GA; the Willard Gallery and the Fischbach Gallery in New
York City as well as the McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery and Henri Gallery in
Washington, DC in past years. For the last 25 years, Ms. Gatewood has
been represented exclusively by the Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte,
NC and the Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC. A recent documentary
film, Gatewood: Facing the White Canvas, recently been completed by the
Academy Award winning film company Empowerment Project and premiered at
the North Carolina Museum of Art last month.
In the area of
public service, Ms. Gatewood was elected in 1976 as the first female
member of the Caswell County Board of Commissioners and served as
chairperson until 1980. During her tenure, she was an advocate for
economic development, land use planning and expanded human resource
services for the county. She also served on numerous state, local and
national boards and commissions, including the North Carolina
Association of County Commissioners, Piedmont Triad Council of
Governments and North Carolina Arts Council.
Courtesy, Rick Frederick, Archivist and Webmaster, Caswell County Historical Association
Source:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=caswellcounty&id=I6028
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  "Studio Arts Building Named For N.C. Artist Maud Gatewood", By Steve Gilliam, University Relations, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro University News, May, 2006
When
it opens this summer [2006], the new Studio Arts Building at UNCG will
bear the name of Maud Gatewood, the late artist who is acknowledged as
one of the state’s most important painters. UNCG trustees named the
building for Gatewood, a renowned artist who was a 1954 alumna of
Woman’s College (now UNCG). Located on Highland Avenue just off Spring
Garden Street, the 99,000-square-foot structure is a North Carolina
Higher Education Bonds project and is being built at a cost of $17.6
million. A formal dedication will be held October 5 as part of UNCG’s
Founders Day activities.
“There could be no better choice than
Maud Gatewood as the namesake for our Studio Art Building,” said UNCG
Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan. “She was a one-of-a-kind individual who
graduated from this institution and then went on to achieve national
and international recognition for her painting. She was one of the
state’s finest artists, and it will be an honor for this university to
put her name on a new building that will benefit our art and design
students for years to come.”
Maud Florance Gatewood, who died in
November 2004 at the age of 70, is considered by art historians,
curators, museum directors and collectors as one of the most important
painters in North Carolina history. Her namesake, the Maud Gatewood
Studio Arts Building is located on Highland Avenue near the Weatherspoon
Art Museum, which holds five Gatewood paintings in its collection, and
will receive some of her other paintings from her estate. Upon
completion, it will house UNCG’s departments of Art and Interior
Architecture. Scheduled to be completed this summer, the building will
open its classrooms, design studios, foundry, ceramics studio, art
gallery and outdoor sculpture garden to students this fall.
At
the age of 16, having skipped two grades in school, Gatewood entered
Woman’s College where she earned her B.A. in fine arts in 1954. A year
later, she completed an M.A. in painting at Ohio State University and
later studied at UNCG and Harvard University. Later in her career, she
received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Salzburg, Austria. She
exhibited widely in the southeastern United States throughout her career
and won numerous awards for her work. Her life and work was chronicled
in an hour-long documentary, “Gatewood: Facing the Canvas,” which was
produced by UNC-TV.
Will South, curator of collections at the
Weatherspoon, said of the artist, “Maud was one of the state’s most
fiercely independent artists. She set a standard for both innovation and
integrity in her work.” She had other activities beyond her art. In
1976, Gatewood was elected as the first female member of the Caswell
County Board of Commissioners and served as chairperson until 1980.
During her tenure, she advocated economic development, land use planning
and expanded human resource services for the county. She also served on
numerous state, local and national boards and commissions, including
the N.C. Association of County Commissioners, Piedmont Triad Council of
Governments and N.C. Arts Council.
The Weatherspoon Art Museum
held a Gatewood retrospective exhibition in 1994 that covered 40 years
of her painting. The exhibition later traveled to five museums
throughout the South. Gatewood was honored by UNCG with an honorary
doctorate in fine arts in 1999.
Courtesy, Rick Frederick, Archivist and Webmaster, Caswell County Historical Association
Source:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=caswellcounty&id=I6028
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These Notes from AskART represent the beginning of a possible future biography for this artist. Please click here if you wish to help in its development:
|  Gatewood studied at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Ohio State University and Harvard Summer School.
She preferred working in polymers.
Information provided by Everette James.
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