From your 2005-2006 GLIRT Moderator
Ray Anne Lockard
Head, Frick Fine Arts Library
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
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Ezra Pound
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:41:51 -0700
From: Corinne and Brown <[log in to unmask]>
To: Queer Caucus for Art Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [queerart] Maud Gatewood (1934-2004
NORTH CAROLINA LESBIAN PAINTER MAUD GATEWOOD (1934-2004)
Award-winning painter Maud F. Gatewood (8 Jan 1934 - 8 Nov 2004), died at
70 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from complications related to a stroke.
Among many other places, her work hangs in the National Museum of Women in
the Arts in Washington, D.C. She is described as salty and blunt,
hard-drinking and smoking, and having a feisty personality.
"Gatewood: Facing the White Canvas" is an hour-long documentary about her
life and work. It was co-produced and co-directed by Carlyle Poteat and
David Kasper of The Empowerment Project of Chapel Hill, N.C. According to
David Fellerath, writing the April 13, 2005 Arts Feature for The
Independent Weekley (Durham, NC), "Viewers of this film may find themselves
wondering about something else that remains unsaid: Gatewood's romantic
relationships with women go unexplored, much to the regret of Poteat, who
said that the topic was off-limits. ‘She was gay, but at her insistence we
kept it out of the film,' Poteat says. ‘I felt it didn't need to be spelled
out but I also felt like it needed to be in there.' ‘The great love of her
life was Molly Sexton,' Poteat continues, ‘who was her model for some of
her most joyful paintings. I had quite a few conversations with her by
phone and e-mail.' Sexton hesitated then finally declined to be interviewed
for the film. Although Sexton's relationship with Gatewood ended many years
ago, the women remained in touch and Sexton, a Greensboro resident, was one
of two people at Gatewood's bedside when she died."
http://indyweek.com/durham/2005-04-13/ae.html
"Gatewood: Facing the White Canvas" is available in videocassette and DVD
formats. The DVD contains 250 of Gatewood's paintings in index form and as
a chronological slide show, Copies can be obtained by contacting the
Caswell County Historical Association at (336) 694-4965 or by visiting
www.empowermentproject.org.
Several copies of a book about her art, Maud Gatewood: Re-Visions by Robert
Hobbs (North Carolina: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, 1994), are available from online used booksellers
for around $7.
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