(1934 - 2004)
Born Yanceyville, North Carolina
EDUCATION
B.A., Women’s College of the University of North Carolina
( now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Greensboro, NC 1954, Art Major
M.A., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1955, Painting Major
Graduate work:
Graphics: Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 1954
Art History: the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1962-63 (Fulbright Grant)
Painting: Akademie fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 1962-63 (Fulbright Grant)
Painting: the International Summer Academy for Painting, Salzberg, Austria, 1963 (Fulbright Grant Extension); study under Oskar Kokoschka
TEACHING
Instructor, Art Department, Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956-58
Instructor, Art Department, Texas Christian University, Fort worth, Texas, 1959-62
Associate Professor, fine Arts Department, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 1962-72
Painting, Part-time teaching, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, 1973-75
Professor and Coordinator, Art Department, Averett College, Danville, Virginia, 1975-present
LISTINGS
WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN ART
WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN WOMEN
WHO’S WHO IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs Annual Art Scholarship, 1953
Fulbright Grant, Painting and Art History, Vienna, Austria, 1962-63
Painting Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1972
North Carolina Arts council, Artists Fellowship, 1980
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art/NEA,
Southeastern Seven Grant, 1981
North Carolina Award in Fine Arts (Governor’s Award), 1984
U.S. Olympic Festival – North Carolina Poster Award, 1987
Absolute Statehood – 51 painters, 1993
PORTFOLIOS PUBLISHED
SOUTHERN ACCENTS, April, 1988
PACE, Piedmont Airlines, Febraury, 1986
RED CLAY READER II, 1965, portfolio of drawings and cover design (Southern Literary Magazine)
THE CRUCIBLE, Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, North Carolina 1967 (Literary Magazine)
SELECTED SHOWS
MAUD GATEWOOD: RE-VISIONS, a retrospective exhibition covering forty years of paintings, organized by the Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC-G, Greensboro, North Carolina. 1994-95. Touring, catalogue
NINE FROM NORTH CAROLINA, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1989 and touring. Catalogue
Winstone Press Prints, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, 1988
1988 Mint Museum Biennial, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC. Catalogue
THREE APPROACHES TO THE FIGURATIVE: FLEMING, GATEWOOD, KOEGEL, Southern Arts Federation, 1986-87. Touring. Catalogue.
DRAWINGS, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC, 1989
FIVE PERSON SHOW, Greenville museum of Art, Greenville, SC, 1984
TEN YEARS – TEN ARTISTS, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1984
PAINTING IN THE SOUTH, Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1983-85, touring, catalogue
MAUD GATEWOOD: FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1983, catalogue
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
BB&T, Charlotte, North Carolina
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, Baltimore, Maryland
Burroughs Welcome Fund, Research Triangle, North Carolina
Chase collection, Providence, Rhode Island
Coca-Cola company, Atlanta, Georgia
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA: Richmond, VA: Charlotte, NC
First Charter Center
First Union Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina
Glaxo, Research Triangle, North Carolina
Hickory Museum of Art, hickory, North Carolina
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee
IBM Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina
J.A. Jones Construction Company, Charlotte, North Carolina
LCI Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina
Marriott Hotel, Greensboro NC; Kansas City, MO; Irvine, CA
McDonald Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois
McLean Trucking company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Miller Brewing Company, Eden, North Carolina
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
National Gallery for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
NationsBank, Charlotte, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Phillip Morris Company, New York, New York
REA Construction Company, charlotte, North Carolina
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Radisson Hotel, Charlotte, North Carolina
Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, PA, Charlotte, North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina