Margaret Stickney Kendall was an American painter and sculptor. She was married to follow artist William Sergeant Kendall, and was a subject in many of his paintings.
Overview
Margaret Stickney Kendall was an American painter and sculptor. She was married to follow artist William Sergeant Kendall, and was a subject in many of his paintings.
Life and career
During the mid-1890s, Margaret Stickney Kendall took a painting class taught by William Sergeant Kendall at Cooper Union. The couple married in early 1896 and had three daughters, Elisabeth, Beatrice, and Alison, born between 1896 and 1907.
Stickney Kendall and their daughters were the subjects of many of Sergeant Kendall's paintings.
The couple lived in the West Side of Manhattan from 1897 until 1906, when they moved to Barrytown, New York. In 1910, they moved to Marin Cottage in Newport, Rhode Island. The Kendalls moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1913, when Sergeant Kendall earned a position at Yale University as dean of the School of Fine Arts.
