I Made Space for a Good Man
Date2009
Artist
Deborah Willis
(American photographer, author, and historian, born 1948)
Publisher
The Brandywine Workshop and Archives
(founded 1972)
MediumColor lithograph from photo film and drawing on Mylar
Dimensionssheet: 14 13/16 × 29 5/8 in. (37.6 × 75.2 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2017
Object number2017-69
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn this highly personal work, Deborah Willis refers to a moment from her past. While in school, a male professor admonished Willis for "taking up a good man's space " by enrolling in the program at Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts). In the far right frame of the print, the artist is shown pregnant, making "space for a good man"—her artist son, Hank Willis Thomas.
Hank Willis Thomas
2018
