Pauline Vinson foregrounded landscape painter and printmaker Chee Chin S. Cheung Lee (1896–1966) in this view of a WPA workshop, challenging racist and antiimmigrant assumptions about who counts as an American artist. Born in Guangdong Province, China, Lee was banned from obtaining U.S. citizenship by a long history of laws— beginning in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act—designed to restrict immigration from Asia. Minnetta Good and Ruth Chaney also used the longstanding subject of the artist’s studio to valorize the creative work of women, who were often marginalized in the art world. Good’s self-portrait Artist at Work shows the artist painting along to her record player, surrounded by the tools of her trade. Chaney’s writer waits somberly for inspiration with pen poised.