Author/Editoredited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others]
Alternative TitleThomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
Note (General)Content Type: text (rdacontent), still image (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, February 13-May 17, 2020
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-253) and index
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 qu
"Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent" February 13-May 17, 2020 the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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