Brooks, Inez Helena Seibert, 1914-1988,

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Birth 1914
Death 1988

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Inez Seibert was a modernist painter who married Van Wyck Brooks's son Charles Van Wyck Brooks in 1936, at the age of twenty-two. She continued to paint, under the tutelege Arthur Dove, before moving to France with Charles (1937-1939). On returning to the United States, she and Charles moved to California, where they had a son, Peter (b. 1940), and she continued to paint. By the late 1940s, Inez was showing symptoms of schizophrenia (then untreatable), and the couple separated and divorced (1948-1949). Inez was institutionalized for the remaining years of her life, and died in 1988.

From the description of Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1942-1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191732442

Inez Seibert was a modernist painter who married Van Wyck Brooks's son Charles Van Wyck Brooks in 1936, at the age of twenty-two. She continued to paint, under the tutelage of the Brookes' friend, Arthur Dove, before moving to France with Charles (1937-1939). On returning to the United States, she and Charles moved to California, where they had a son, Peter (b. 1940), and she continued to paint. By the late 1940s, Inez was showing symptoms of schizophrenia (then untreatable), and the couple separated and divorced (1948-1949). Inez was institutionalized for the remaining years of her life, and died in 1988.

From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191731418

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