Elbert County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gaines, George Herman September 14, 2002
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 17 Sep 2002
GEORGE H. GAINES, ARTIST;TEACHER
The influences on George H. Gaines as an artist brought a simplicity and 
function to his work. As an art student before and after World War II, Mr. 
Gaines was influenced by cubism, abstract expressionism and longtime 
University of Georgia art department chairman Lamar Dodd, said his niece Carol 
Gaines Maxwell of Dewy Rose. Mr. Gaines taught art at Wesleyan College in 
Macon from 1955 to 1959 and was chairman of the art department at Georgia 
College and State University in Milledgeville from 1959 to 1985, said his wife 
Sarah B. Gaines of Marietta. The funeral for Mr. Gaines, 82, of Marietta is 1 
pm today at St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church. He died of congestive 
heart failure Saturday at Kennestone WellStar Hospital. Mayes Ward-Dobbins 
Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. He studied jewelry-making in 
Denmark, said Mrs. Maxwell. He liked to search for his own stones and design 
jewelry that conformed to its natural shape, said his nephew Bill Kelley of 
Kennesaw. His pottery had the same purity of design, with form following 
function, said his niece. Mr. Gaines hand-wove lamp shades for his pottery 
lamps, chair covers, tablecloths and place mats. Her favorite painting of his 
is a cubist piece on burlap, said his wife. "He could take pieces and put 
together a radio, take pieces and put together a lawnmower. He was good with 
his hands, and his art was an extension of that," said Mr. Kelley. Moving to 
Marietta in 1986, Mr. Gaines volunteered at the Cobb-Marietta Art Museum and 
had an exhibit of his work there, said Mrs. Gaines. Survivors include two 
brothers, Claude Ralph Gaines, Jr. of Elberton and Charles Stowers Gaines of 
Arlington, VA. 

Additional Comments:
The Social Security Death Index indicates he was born 10 Oct 1919, further 
that Claude R. Gaines, Jr. was born 6 Feb 1923 and died 29 Aug 2007, and 
Charles S. Gaines was born 27 Oct 1930 and died 27 Nov 2003. They were sons of 
Claude Ralph Gaines, Sr. (1887-1955) and Mary Elizabeth "Bessie" Stowers (1893-
1980). George H. Gaines and Sarah Sue Brock were married on 7 Feb 1915 in 
Elbert Co., GA. [See the Stowers article by Joel A. Stowers in the Elbert Co. 
Heritage Book for more info on the Stowers line.]

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