biography of Margaret W. SARGENT (1892-1978)

Birth place: Wellesley, MA

Addresses: act. in Boston, MA, and Wellesley, MA; Stamford, CT

Profession: Sculptor, painter

Studied: BMFA; Charles Woodbury at Ogunquit, ME, 1916; Gutzon Borglum, NYC; George Luks

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1918-19; AIC; Kraushaar Gal, NYC, 1926-31 (solos); Corcoran Gal biennial, 1930; Doll & Richards, Boston , 1932 (solo); Davis Museum, Wellesley Col., 1996 (retrospective); Berry Hill Galleries, NYC, 1996 (retrospective); Charles H. Woodbury and His Students," Ogunquit Mus. of Am. Art, 1998"

Member: NAWPS

Comments: Modernist artist who made portraits and figural works in a bold vivid style. She was friendly with many of the avant-garde artistic types of the 1920s and 1930s, including Alexander (Sandy) Calder, George Luks, Betty Parsons, Fanny Brice, Harpo Marx, and Jane Bowles. Sargent stopped painting about 1935. Family relationships, alcohol problems, and mental illness complicated a great portion of her later life. Assembled important collection of modern art.

Sources: WW40; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; Linda Nochlin, Margarett Sargent (exh. cat., NYC: Berry Hill Gal, 1996); Honor Moore, The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter (New York: Viking Press, 1996); Charles Woodbury and His Students; Falk, Exh. Record Series.