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In One Art Exhibition, Women Are Taking Space They ve Long Deserved
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 By Susan Stamberg
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.