Sibyl Anikeef

She was born as Marie Augusta Phillipson on March 29, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois, He later became her lifelong friend, and someone she both models for and served as her model. Photography containing her as a model (by Weston) can be found in the museum collections at Syracuse University Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She died on July 27, 1997, in New York City. Her own photography work can be found in the museum and library collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the library special collections at University of California, Davis, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. == Personal life ==

On October 21, 1921, she married her first husband in New York City, Vasile Anikeef (or alternate spelling Anikeyev) an opera singer from Russia. Together they had one son, Lyman, born in Moscow in 1927. Her second husband was Simon Freed, an atomic scientist, they were married on May 5, 1943, in Chicago. == References ==