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Lot 3040
Elizabeth Matheson (NC), Shell Castle
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Color photograph, circa 2008, with inscribed gallery label to verso, matted and framed.

Frame dimensions 16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.

Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

A native of Hillsborough, North Carolina, Elizabeth Matheson earned her BA from Sweet Briar College and later studied at the Penland School of Crafts with John Menapace. Solo exhibitions of her work have been installed at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Duke University, Western Carolina University, the National Humanities Center, and the Gregg Museum at North Carolina State University. Her work is in the collections of Duke University, the Ackland Art Museum Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, among many others. In 2004, she was awarded the North Carolina Award for Excellence in the Arts, the State's highest civilian honor.

Good estate condition; some light frame wear; not examined out of frame.