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Evelyn Wilson was born in 1915 to Hungarian immigrant parents and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She graduated from Hunter College in 1936 and in 1940 married the painter Ben Wilson, her companion for 65 years. The couple had one child, Joanne, in 1942. A sculptor who has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad, Wilson has work in many public and private collections and has received numerous awards. For many years she divided her time between sculpture and as an executive in the perfume and cosmetics industries, for which several of her inventions were patented. The work that appears in this issue came from a book of memoirs and sculptures, Prince of Whales, compiled as a gift by her daughter Joanne Wilson Jaffe, who is herself a sculptor. Their work can be viewed Online at the Gallery of Functional Art. The Women’s Studies program has a collection of Evelyn Wilson’s works. They will become a permanent part of the Women’s Studies Lounge.