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Shuttered Fayetteville art museum selling collection

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) – About 50 works by artists including Maud Gatewood and Herb Jackson are being sold as the former Fayetteville Museum of Art sells its collection to pay off debt.

The Fayetteville Observer reported some of the works were sold Thursday at Methodist University. About 300 people are invited to the private sale. Only six of 22 works offered at the live auction sold, which brought in $13,000. Other works were offered in a silent auction.

A fine arts company in Charlotte is selling several hundred pieces that comprise the rest of the permanent collection in addition to what did not sell at the auction. Proceeds will go toward the debts that forced the museum to close last year.

The museum board first planned to sell all the paintings through the Charlotte company. Then, the board agreed that it would be good to make sure some of the pieces stayed in Fayetteville.

Works by Joe Cox and Claude Howell also were for sale.

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