Maud Florance Gatewood (January 8, 1934 – November 8, 2004) was an American artist from Yanceyville, North Carolina.

Art historians, museum directors, curators, and collectors recognize her as one of North Carolina's most distinguished painters.

[1][2][3] Maud Gatewood grew up in Yanceyville and attended Bartlett Yancey High School.

[5] Finishing her undergraduate coursework in 1954, Gatewood continued her art studies at Ohio State University where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree.

[6] In 1963, Gatewood won a Fulbright grant to study art in Austria under renowned painter Oskar Kokoschka.