Robert E. Sargent was a well regarded author and illustrator of children's books. As an artist his work
has been widely collected since the 1950's by celebrities, and private collectors. Some of these collectors are
Catarina Valente, John Steinbeck, Kaye Ballard, Perry Como, Eartha Kitt, Jane Powell, Paul Douglas, John Sterling, Nancy Walker,
Ross Hunter, Jack Mapes, Hildegarde Kneff and many others.
Robert was born in Vermont in 1933. His parents were Robert S. and Hilda I. Sargent, who resided on South Main
Street in Northfield, Vermont. He has a younger sister Patricia A. Sargent, who was born in 1939.
Robert attended
Northfield schools and was educated in both Liberal Arts and fine arts in Vermont and Paris. For more than 9 years
he also resided and worked in Paris, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Vienna, Zurich, Rome Capri, and Madrid.
He produced and wrote his own fairy tales in which he added classical music. These evolved into successful television
programs for children which aired weekly on on the Sweden Television Program Exchange and expanded well into Europe over the
years.
He has been the recipient of many awards for his drawings, illustrations, paintings and book jackets. He
has sold many of these works in over 750 galleries throughout the United States and Canada since he returned to the USA
in 1965.
Among his creative achievements - are a Danish Advent Calendar for Unicef,
and the following: