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Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent / edited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men in art--Exhibitions.
- African American men in art.
- Artists' models--Exhibitions.
- Artists' models.
- Artists' preparatory studies--Exhibitions.
- Artists' preparatory studies.
- Human figure in art--Exhibitions.
- Human figure in art.
- Mural painting and decoration, American--Massachusetts--Boston--Exhibitions.
- Mural painting and decoration, American.
- Nude in art--Exhibitions.
- Nude in art.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
- McKeller, Thomas, 1890-1962--In art--Exhibitions.
- McKeller, Thomas.
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925--Exhibitions.
- Sargent, John Singer.
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc--Exhibitions.
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925.
- Genre:
- Art criticism.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : 136 illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles
- Other Title:
- Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, [2020]
- Summary:
- "In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962), a young Black elevator attendant, at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller posed for most of the figures-- both male and female-- in Sargent's murals in the Museum of Fine Arts. The painter transformed McKeller into white gods and goddesses, creating soaring allegories of the liberal arts that celebrated the recent expansion of the city's premier civic museum. Sargent then gave the preparatory drawings of McKeller to Isabella Stewart Gardner, ensuring their preservation in perpetuity. Displayed together for the first time, the drawings provide a window into the metamorphoses of race, gender, and identity, and attest to a relationship between two men, artist and model, at a time of intense social upheaval. This exhibition brings together Sargent's drawings and related historical materials to tell the story of McKeller's life. His central importance in Sargent's major artistic commissions in the Boston area considers critical questions of race, class, and sexuality-- as relevant today as they were in Gilded Age Boston"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Thomas McKeller, John Singer Sargent, and Isabella Stewart Gardner : an introduction / Nathaniel Silver
- "Atlas, with the world on his shoulders, this was my body" : Thomas McKeller and his work with John Singer Sargent / Paul Fisher
- Thomas McKeller sous rapture : John Singer Sargent's erasure of a Black male model / Nikki A. Greene
- Notes on living a translated life / Lorraine O'Grady
- John Singer Sargent : academician / Erica E. Hirshler
- Secrets & sensuality : the private lives of John Singer Sargent and Henry James / Colm Tóibín
- 1986 / Trevor Fairbrother
- To make a case : Isabella Stewart Gardner's archival installations at Fenway Court / Casey Riley.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on October 30, 2021).
- Art Libraries Society of North America George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, 2020
- "Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent" : February 13-May 17, 2020, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
- Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, February 13-May 17, 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300266146
- 0300266146
- OCLC:
- 1281564757
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