Margaret Sparrow was born in St. Joseph, Mo, in 1953. She attended the Kansas City Art Institute for two years before transferring to the New York Studio School for Painting, Drawing and Sculpture on 8th St. in NYC. She worked under Mercedes Matter, Philip Guston and Estaban Vicente. At the same time, she attended classes at the New School for Social Research, with an interest in philosophy. Credit transfers from these two schools enabled her to graduate from the Kansas City Art Institute with a BFA in painting in 1974. She remained in NYC for another ten years, painting quietly and deliberately. To avoid the ever increasing financial demands of the city, she moved to Maine, where a friend offered her the use of his summer home on the island of Vinalhaven. Financial assistance from a collector in New York enabled her to live and paint through the winters for the next ten years.
In 1990 she met her future husband, Edward Sparrow, a tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. They were married in 1995 in New York. Ms. Sparrow now resides in northern Vermont.
Margaret Sparrow has endeavored throughout the years to create works of lasting value and genuine authenticity. The results are a collection of fine easel paintings and works on paper, created with care and dedication. Hers has been and continues to be a very serious and very private quest, pursued with a compelling sense of wonder at the simple loveliness, mystery, and grandeur of the world which surrounds us all.
Rarely shown, the paintings are represented in private collections and one public museum.