# Margarett W. Sargent artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/margarett-w-sargent/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:32:14.763Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Margarett W. Sargent](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Margarett_Sargent%2C_1915.jpg)
Arnold Genthe · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margarett_Sargent,_1915.jpg

## About Margarett W. Sargent

Margarett W. Sargent (1892–1978), also identified as Margarett Williams Sargent, was an American painter and sculptor. Library and art-authority records connect her identity across VIAF, Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and the Library of Congress, helping distinguish her work from that of artists with similar surnames. She also exhibited under the name Margarett W. McKean, an alternate name that can be important when reviewing signatures, labels, catalogues, and historical ownership records. A collected secondary biography associates Sargent with the Ashcan School and describes her as a follower of George Luks; however, the available source pack does not contain a museum or scholarly source confirming that affiliation, so it remains provisional here. Collectors may encounter her name in connection with paintings or sculpture, the two practices supported by the authority records. Careful identity matching is particularly important because abbreviated names and her married exhibiting name can divide references to the same artist across catalogues and databases.

## Common works and media

The collected authority evidence supports painting and sculpture as Sargent's principal documented practices. It does not establish specific recurring subjects, named series, print editions, preferred materials, or characteristic dimensions. Works offered under Margarett Sargent, Margarett W. Sargent, or Margarett W. McKean should therefore be matched through signatures, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition labels, and catalogue documentation rather than name similarity alone. More precise descriptions of common work types require stronger museum, exhibition, or catalogue evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The fetched Appraisily page currently contains no matched priced auction lots for Margarett W. Sargent, so it does not support a median price, price range, or recent-sales trend. An appraisal should instead begin with secure artist identification, including consideration of the alternate exhibiting name Margarett W. McKean. Medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can all affect comparison quality. Any public sale used as a comparable should involve a genuinely similar work and should be checked for attribution language, reporting conventions, and whether buyer's premium is included. Private transactions and incomplete auction feeds may leave relevant market activity outside the visible dataset.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction-house context and matched auction records. When available, sale dates, realized prices, attribution details, and comparable lots help inform appraisal research; gaps or conflicts in those records are retained as limitations rather than converted into price claims.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/13118668/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47166266
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500055464
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96014409
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarett_Sargent
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/margarett-w-sargent/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margarett_Sargent,_1915.jpg