Maud Gatewood Exhibit
This month the CCHA and the Richmond-Miles Museum are doing a special display on Maud Gatewood. The museum is currently redesigning its Maud Gatewood exhibit to provide a better viewing experience. While these changes are occurring we have placed a special exhibit in the current events room that highlights her life and works.
Maud (1934-2004) was born in the house that now is the Richmond-Miles History Museum. She was the only child of John Yancey Gatewood and Mary Lea Florance Gatewood. The room in which Maud Gatewood was born has served as a focal point of the current Maud Gatewood art exhibit, including the canvas upon which she was working when she died in 2004.
Raised in Yanceyville, Maud Gatewood received her B.A. in Art from the what is now UNC-Greensboro, and her Masters from Ohio State University in Columbus. In 1963 she won a Fulbright grant and studied art in Austria. Upon returning to the states she taught at several universities while continuing her artistic interests. In 1976 she was elected as the first female member of the Caswell County Board of Commissioners. Gatewood also won numerous awards during her art career, including an art award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1972 and the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts in 1984.
The Caswell County Historical Association and Richmond-Miles Museum welcome visitors to see this and other exhibits during operating hours which are currently Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1-4 pm.
