Mixed media on paper, monogrammed and dated 2002 at lower right, inscribed along top margin "Presented to Joe in celebration of his birthday / July 11th 2002 / Maud Dave Mary Chris," further inscribed in image "Who is that man?" and "What is that dog?," inscribed "Three Score" near a blind stamp at lower left, matted and framed under glass.

Frame dimensions 23 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.

From the Estate of the late Joseph D. Rowand, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Joe Rowand was instrumental in developing a contemporary art scene in North Carolina. After studying in New York City at Parsons, he brought the big city art feel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina when he opened Somerhill Gallery in 1972. His gallery served as an epicenter for collectors and artists to gather and grow for over thirty years.

This portrait was commissioned by Joe's gallery staff as a gift for his birthday.

The daughter of the Caswell County sheriff, Maud Gatewood was born and raised in the rural town of Yanceyville, North Carolina. She began her art studies at the age of ten at Averett College in Danville, Virginia. In 1954 she graduated from North Carolina Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. There she studied under Gregory Ivy, a founding member of both the Art Department and Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro. The next year she earned her Master’s Degree in Painting from Ohio State. In 1963 she was awarded a Fulbright grant to study under artist Oskar Kokoschka in Austria.

She returned to North Carolina in 1964, where she was founding head of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was a faculty member there 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. Gatewood traveled extensively throughout her lifetime, but was always drawn back to her Caswell County roots.

Gatewood exhibited widely throughout the Southeast and her work is now some of the most collected and sought after of North Carolina 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; Asheville Art Museum; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; the Nasher Art Museum at Duke University, Durham; and Coca-Cola, Atlanta.

Some fading to lettering; not examined out of the frame.