Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1947.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Inez Helena Seibert, 1914-1988.

Contributor:

Brooks, Eleanor Stimson, addressee.

Brooks, Gladys, addressee.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

23 items (48 leaves)

Contained In:

Van Wyck Brooks Papers. Folders 3299-3300

Place of Publication:

1937-1947.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

Contains the letters from Inez Brooks (wife of Charles Van Wyck Brooks) to her father- and mother-in-law (though most of them are addressed solely to Eleanor Stimson Brooks), as well as stepmother -in-law. The bulk of them fall between the years 1937-1939, when Charles and Inez were living in France.

OCLC:

191731421