Maud Florance Gatewood (January 8, 1934 – November 8, 2004) was an American

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...

from

Yanceyville Yanceyville is a town in, and the county seat of, Caswell County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state, it had a population of 1,937 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Established in 1791 as ...

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. Art historians, museum directors, curators, and collectors recognize her as one of North Carolina's most distinguished painters.

Biography

Early life and career

Maud Gatewood grew up in Yanceyville and attended

Bartlett Yancey High School Bartlett Yancey High School (BYHS), also referred to as Bartlett Yancey Senior High School, is a public high school located in Yanceyville, North Carolina, serving students in the ninth through twelfth grades. It is in the Caswell County Schools ...

. When she was sixteen she enrolled at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, which is presently the

University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina system. It is accredited by the S ...

. Finishing her undergraduate coursework in 1954, Gatewood continued her art studies at

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where she received a

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degree. In 1963, Gatewood won a Fulbright grant to study art in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

under renowned painter

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expre ...

. Returning to North Carolina, she began teaching art at the

University of North Carolina at Charlotte The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte, or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs thr ...

. She later left her position at the school in 1973, desiring more time to paint. During her lifetime, Gatewood had a strong following, particularly in the

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. Her work has been exhibited in private collections and museums throughout the U.S., including the

National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openi ...

in Washington, DC. Gatewood won numerous awards during her artistic career, including an art award from the

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in 1972 and the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts in 1984.

References

External links

Greensboro.com

The Johnson Collection

Artnet

Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History

The Blowing Rock Art & History Museum (BRAHM)
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