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Up for sale a RARE! "Portait of a Woman" Margarett Sargent 8X10 Drawing Circa 1920.
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. Margarett Williams Sargent was born on August 31, 1892, on
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,[1] the daughter of Francis Williams Sargent
(1848–1920) and Jane Welles Hunnewell (1851–1936). She was a distant relative
of John Singer Sargent. Sargent attended Miss Porter's School. After breaking a first engagement with
Eddie Morgan, who was not accepted by her family, she trained as a sculptor in
Italy, but later turned to watercolors and oils. She had her first show in
New York in 1926, and later in Boston and Chicago. She was a student
of Gutzon Borglum and George Luks. In 1919, Luks portrayed her by memory in The
White Blackbird. 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.
Her granddaughter, Honor Moore suggests she may have had an affair with
her New York roommate, Marjorie Davenport. Fanny Brice lived downstairs to them. Sargent became
friends with gallerist Betty Parsons, a friendship that would last for life. Another
friend was socialite Vivian
Pickman In 1920, Margarett
Sargent married Quincy Adams Shawn Mckean (November
1, 1891 – August 1971), a polo player from an old Boston family. The courtship
had begun in 1912, at Sargent's debut ball. In 1920 Shawn Mckean bought
the Samuel Corning House in Beverly, Massachusetts.
The house was listed on the National
Register of Historic Places in 1990. They had four children in
three years: Q.A. Shaw Jr, Margarett "Margie", Jenny and Harry. In
1941 Margarett McKean (1922-2013) married Wally Reed. In
1944 Jenny McKean, married the Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr. and their daughter is author Honor Moore. 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. During
her marriage, Sargent had both male and female lovers, and her husband as well
had female lovers. One of Sargent's lovers was heiress Isabel Pell 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. Sargent was an
alcoholic and a frequent patient in sanitariums and received electroconvulsive therapy.
After divorcing her, Mckean married Katherine Winthrop, whom
he had met while still married to Sargent. Margarett Williams
Sargent died in 1978.
