Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1942-1947.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Inez Helena Seibert, 1914-1988.

Contributor:

Brooks, Charles Van Wyck.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

21 items (49 leaves)

Contained In:

Van Wyck Brooks Papers. Folders 3367-3368

Place of Publication:

1942-1947.

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 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.

Summary:

Correspondence is from times of separation between Charles and Inez, such as Inez's hospitalizations and her stays in New York to advocate her artwork. Included in the undated letters is an item from Inez addressed to "Papa" (most likely her own father, but it is perhaps possible that this refers to Van Wyck Brooks), outlining her views of Charles's too meek relationship with his mother, Eleanor Stimson Brooks.

Notes:

Contains 2 items (2 leaves) from Charles Brooks.

OCLC:

191732444