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|  Born in San Francisco, CA on Jan. 4, 1900. At age 15 Brooks began her art studies with Armin Hansen in Monterey. After several years with Hansen, she continued in Munich for four years at the Akadémie der Bildenden Künste. She was active in her native city in the 1920s and 1930s, and while there married the poet Constant Zarian. The subject of her drawings, oils, and watercolors often chronicle life on the Monterey Peninsula during the Depression, such as migrant workers, dock workers, and net repairmen on Cannery Row. She died while vacationing in Amsterdam on Nov. 2, 1963. Exh: SFAA, 1925-27; Turin, 1927; EastWest Gallery (SF), 1929 (solo); SFMA, 1935. In: Oakland Museum. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
California Arts and Architecture list, 1932; SF Chronicle, 3-10-1929, 65/8 and 1-5-1930, D5/6. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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