Mixed media on paper, inscribed and monogrammed at upper left "Woman Drying Her Hair - Study - MFG '82," matted and framed under Plexiglass. This is a study for the painting Mirror Image and featured in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (object number 2006.16.1).

SS 17 x 23 in.; DOA 28 x 32.25 in.

From the Collection of William K. Diehl, Jr., Charlotte, NC

The daughter of the Caswell County sheriff, Maud Gatewood was born and raised in the rural town of Yanceyville, NC. She began her art studies at the age of 10 at Averett College in Danville, VA. In 1954 she graduated from North Carolina Woman's College (now UNC-Greensboro) with a B.F.A., studying under Gregory Ivy. The next year she earned her M.F.A. in Painting from Ohio State, and in 1963 she was awarded a Fulbright grant to study under Oskar Kokoschka in Austria.

She returned to North Carolina in 1964, where she was founding head of the Art Department at UNC-Charlotte. She was a faculty member of UNC-Charlotte until 1973. In 1975, she returned to Caswell County and became a professor of art at Averett College, a position she held until her retirement in 1997. Over the course of her life-long career as an art educator, she reached students far beyond NC and VA.

Gatewood exhibited widely throughout the Southeast and her work is now among the most collected and sought after of NC artists. She is represented in numerous public and private collections including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Nasher Art Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC; and Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA.

Minor accretions under Plexiglass - not examined out of the frame.

$1,000 - 3,000