Margaret Stickney Kendall was an American painter and sculptor. She was married to fellow artist William Sergeant Kendall, and was a subject in many of his paintings.
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.[1][2][3]
1909 painting by William Sergeant Kendall depicting Margaret Stickney Kendall and two of their daughters
Stickney Kendall and their daughters were the subjects of many of Sergeant Kendall's paintings.[2][3]
In April 1915, Kendall published an essay in The Atlantic titled "A Personal Reflection on the Cost of Living."[5] In 1919, the essay was published in book form by E.L. Hildreth & Co.[6]
Stickney Kendall and William Sergeant Kendall divorced in 1921.[7] The following year, Sergeant Kendall married painter Christine Herter, who had been his student at Yale.[8][4]
