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Summer 2010 – Prof. Tom Wolf
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I continued my research about Asian-American artists by visiting a descendant of a fascinating, overlooked Japanese American set designer in Seattle. But most of my summer was devoted to writing an article about the famous feminist writer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Early in her career, in the 1880s, she worked as an artist, and her first husband was an painter. Although a tremendous amount has been written about her (over 40 books) no one has really analyzed the art of her formative years: the significance of the art she made in terms of gender issues, and the relation between her artistic concerns and those of her husband. They lived in Providence, Rhode Island, which I visited several times to do research about their artistic context, and which will be incorporated in the essay I plan to submit for publication soon.
