Margarett Sargent

Margarett Williams Sargent (August 31, 1892 – 1978) was a noted painter in the Ashcan School and a follower of George Luks. She exhibited as Margarett Sargent and Margarett W. McKean.

Early life and education Margarett Williams Sargent was born on August 31, 1892, on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,

Sargent attended Miss Porter's School. The sculptural portrait she did of Luks and entered in the Pennsylvania Academy annual show was praised by critics. In 1949 Margarett McKean remarried to Barclay H. Warburton III (divorced in 1959), the step-son of William Kissam Vanderbilt II. In 1952 Q.A. Shaw McKean, Jr., married Linda Huntington Borden, the daughter of John C. Borden. In 1966 Margarett McKean remarried to Stephen B. Vernon.

She was friends with Berenice Abbott, who took her portrait in Paris in 1928. Frederic Clay Bartlett, who courted her, sketched her in Paris; in the 1930s the sketch hung in Bartlett's house at 1301 Astor Street, Chicago. Sargent said that Isabell was "handsome, wonderfully handsome". Pell used to visit Sargent at her Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts mansion, and was well known by both Sargent's husband, Quincy Adams Shaw McKean, and children, who called Pell "cousin Pell". Another male lover of Sargent was a young John Walker, who was to become the director of the National Gallery in Washington. After divorcing her, Mckean married Katherine Winthrop, whom he had met while still married to Sargent. "Decorative Panels and Watercolors", C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, March 29 – April 12, 1927 "Margarett Sargent", September 12 - October 5, 1996. Berry Hill Galleries, New York "Margarett Sargent", The Bold and the Beautiful, March 25, 2017, Cape Ann Museum

Legacy In 1996 Sargent's granddaughter, Honor Moore, published The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter.