I Made Space for a Good Man

© Deborah Willis. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or p…
© Deborah Willis
I Made Space for a Good Man
© Deborah Willis. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

I Made Space for a Good Man

Date2009
Artist (American photographer, author, and historian, born 1948)
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
Not on view
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.