Maude was continuing to receive honors for her paintings outside Eugene. Her paintings hung in galleries in Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Yale University and the Guggenheim. Beyond the United States, they were displayed in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Kyoto and Tokyo with the National Association of Women Artists. She was also chosen one of five “Women of Achievement” by the honorary Theta Sigma Phi sorority. And, in 1950, she helped organize the Eugene Art Center (now the Maude Kerns Art Center). In 1964, during three years of illness, friends and former students created an endowment at the University in her name for scholarships in art education. Maude Kerns lived alone near campus (her home was located where the Peace Health parking garage is now located on 13th and Hilyard) until her death in 1965. Maude died October 19, 1965. She was eighty nine years old. Maude’s will was filled with many $500 bequest; some were for the children of former students; one was for the Tamkin brothers to publish a book, or write articles, about music; and $1000 for Rolph Scarlett “for any art purpose. Maude left two additional endowments to the University. One was a loan fund for a student working in any form of art and the other was $500,000 to establish the Maude I. Kerns Endowed Chair in Oriental Art History, to pay the salary of a distinguished professor, along with library and lecture support.
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