Margaret Holland Sargent
{{Short description|American artist (born 1927)}}
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| name = Margaret Holland Sargent
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| caption = Margaret Holland Sargent with Bill Gates and William H. Gates, Sr. in front of Holland's painting of Mary Maxwell Gates.
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1927|12|30}}
| birth_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.
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| occupation = portrait artist
| years_active = 1958–present
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Margaret Holland Sargent (born December 30, 1927), also known as Meg Sargent, is an American portrait artist based in Los Angeles, California. She has painted over three hundred oil portraits, including portraits of Tennessee Williams, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher.[http://www.allbusiness.com/services/museums-art-galleries-botanical-zoological/4354889-1.html June 7, 2005 American Artist article on Margaret Holland Sargent]{{Cite news|title = The Business of Portrait Painting|last = Price|first = Linda S|date = 2000|work = American Artist|issue = 694|volume = 64|page = 50}}
Background
Sargent's father, Cecil Holland, was a character actor and theatrical makeup artist. He has been cited as influential on her career.{{Cite news|title=Margaret Holland Sargent|last=Lovoos|first=Janice|date=1983|work=American Artist|issue=489|volume=47|pages=46–94}} Sargent traveled extensively as an adult with her husband, a career military officer. She studied acting and costume design at the University of California at Los Angeles and is a member of Kappa Delta sorority.{{Cite journal|last=Luana Luconi|first=Winner|date=2002|title=Margaret Holland Sargent: A Stellar Career|journal=Folio|volume=Spring|pages=2–5}}
Herbert Abrams introduced Sargent to oil painting in the 1960s and she continued to study with John Howard Sanden in the 1970s at the Art Students League of New York. She first painted in a spare bedroom of her home, eventually developing a freestanding studio on her property.
Career
Sargent is a skilled businesswoman who has promoted herself throughout her career, employing portfolios, flyers, a website and print advertisements. She has used computers and digital cameras in her work since 1997.{{Cite journal|last=Forst|first=Elizabeth|date=November 2005|title=Painting in the Digital Age|journal=American Artist|volume=69|issue=759|pages=16–27}}
Sargent has frequently painted portraits of officers from the U.S. military, such as Alexander Haig, James Stockdale[http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=116120 Biography from AskART Archives] She is known for painting many of the first women officers in the United States military,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707825583|title=American women artists in wartime, 1776-2010|last1=Calvin|first1=Paula E|last2=Deacon|first2=Deborah A|date=2011-01-01|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786449873|location=Jefferson, N.C.|page=138|oclc=707825583|language=en}} including Kristin Baker (first Captain at West Point), first woman graduate from West Point (Andrea Hollen), and the first female chaplain in the armed forces, Dianna Pohlman Bell.{{Cite journal|last=Rohlk|first=Lori|date=February 2000|title=Bold Strokes|journal=Working Woman|volume=25|issue=2|page=17}} She painted Mary Maxwell Gates' portrait. Her artwork of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt was used as cover art for Delphine Haley's book, Dorothy Stimson Bullitt: An Uncommon Life.{{Cite web|title=Margaret HollandSargent portraits|url=https://portraitartist.com/detail/6527|access-date=2021-04-01|website=portraitartist.com|language=en}}
Sargent was the first female member of the Salmagundi Club, the American Portrait Society, and the Council of Leading American Portrait Painters.
Throughout her painting career, Sargent has acted in movies, television, and commercials.{{Cite journal|date=June–July 2010|title=Portraits Go West!|website=InternationalArtist.com|issue=73|page=28}}
Professional organizations
- American Portrait Society
- The American Society of Portrait Artists
- Council of Leading American Portrait Painters
- Painters Club of New York
- Salmagundi Club
References
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External links
- [http://sargentportraits.com Official Website of Margaret Holland Sargent]
- [https://vimeo.com/214543967 2016 video interview of Margaret Holland Sargent]
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Category:People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
Category:Artists from Los Angeles
Category:Painters from California
Category:American portrait painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:20th-century American women painters