Elizabeth Matheson (NC), Coolmore (Tarboro, NC)

Lot Details & Additional Photographs Archival pigment print, pencil signed at lower right, retains gallery label to verso. Presented in custom painted wooden frame with wood salvaged from Hurricane Katrina.

Frame dimensions 44 x 43 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; few minor chips to frame paint; not examined out of frame.