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Katherine FIeld Caldwell was a professor of Asian art at Mills College. Born in 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio, she received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. in art history from Harvard University. Caldwell became an authority on Japanese and Chinese art history and helped found the San Francisco Society for Asian Art. Her academic research focused on the Nara Ehon, which are a type of woodblock-painted scroll containing Japanese medieval prose. She taught at Mills College from 1951 to 1971 and was a frequent lecturer at museums in the Bay Area. In this interview, Caldwell discusses her family history, memories of suffragists and writers, museums in the Bay Area, and the Society for Asian Art.