\"Portait of a Woman\" Margarett Sargent 8X10 Drawing Circa 1920 For Sale

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.