She became fast friends with fellow AAM student, Prudence Heward, spending time each summer at the Heward’s summer home on the St. Lawrence River. The two young artists sketched together and were often joined by other artists, including close friend, A.Y. Jackson. Sarah became a member of the Beaver Hall Group and kept the women artists together after the original group disbanded. Jackson recognized her status as unofficial leader of the group.

Robertson exhibited for the first time at the Royal Canadian Academy’s annual exhibition in 1920. She became a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933 and participated in a three woman show with Prudence Heward and Isabel McLaughlin the following year. he was pleased to have her paintings represented in the collection of important Canadians such as the Hon. Vincent Massey, H.S. Southam, and A.Y. Jackson.

When Prudence Heward died in 1947, she was called upon to help organize her Memorial Exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. Her own health had begun to decline, and she died in December of 1948. Her paintings are represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Source: Cowley Abbott Auctions