Deborah Willis,
I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.35
Deborah Willis/Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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Deborah Willis,
I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.35
Deborah Willis/Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
She was 22. One of three women in a class of 24. Her professor at the Philadelphia College of Art told her she was "taking up a good man's space" in his class. All she'd do when school was over was get pregnant and raise her child. "Meanwhile," said the professor, "a good man could have been in that space."