Maud Gatewood   (American, 1934-2004) 

Maud Gatewood is a recipient of a Fulbright Grant through which she studied art history and painting in Salzburg, Austria. In 1972, Ms. Gatewood was winner of the painting award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a 1981 recipient of a Southeastern Seven Grant from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and in 1984 was presented the North Carolina Governor's Award in Fine Arts. She earned the North Carolina Poster Award for the 1987 U.S. Olympic Festival, and in 1993 was honored by the University of North Carolina with one of four postal cachet commissions created to celebrate the bicentennial of the University of North Carolina.

A large-scale retrospective exhibit of her life's work, curated by Robert Hobbs opened at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro's Weatherspoon Gallery in April of 1994. Accompanied by a full color catalog the exhibit traveled to five museums throughout the South, including North Carolina State University's Visual Arts Center.

Her work has been exhibited in several juried shows including 13 North Carolina Artists Annuals at the N.C. Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, and two Miller exhibits at the Green Hill Gallery in Greensboro, NC. She has also been included in many group shows including "Painting in the South" at the Richmond Museum in Richmond, VA and traveling (1983-85), the Southern Arts Foundation Touring Show "Three Approaches to the Figurative:Fleming, Gatewood, Koegel" (1986-87), and the Southeastern Seven-V Fellowship Winners Show at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, and traveling. She was one of the nine artists who participated in the NC Women's Artists exhibition at the National Museum of Women in Washington, DC.

Articles about Maud Gatewood have been published in Piedmont Airline's Pace Magazine in 1987, and in the Summer 1988 issue of Southern Accents, and in the October 1990 North Carolina Homes and Gardens.