1. Margarett Williams Sargent was a noted painter in the Ashcan School and a follower of George Luks.
11 Facts About Margarett Sargent
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Margarett Sargent exhibited as Margarett Sargent and Margarett W McKean.
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Margarett Williams Sargent was born on August 31,1892, on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, the daughter of Francis Williams Sargent and Jane Welles Hunnewell.
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Margarett Sargent was a distant relative of John Singer Sargent.
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Margarett Sargent was creating portraits of children and animals, but in 1917 decided to study with sculptor Gutzon Borglum.
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Margarett Sargent stopped painting in 1936, when it had gotten "too intense" for her, as she told her granddaughter.
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Margarett Sargent became friends with gallerist Betty Parsons, a friendship that would last for life.
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In 1920, Margarett Sargent married Quincy Adams Shawn Mckean, a polo player from an old Boston family.
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In 1949 Margarett McKean remarried to Barclay H Warburton III, the step-son of William Kissam Vanderbilt II.
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Margarett Sargent was friends with Berenice Abbott, who took her portrait in Paris in 1928.
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Margarett Sargent was an alcoholic and a frequent patient in sanitariums and received electroconvulsive therapy.