Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

Boston, Mass. : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, [2020]

Subject:

McKeller, Thomas, - 1890-1962 - In art - Exhibitions
Sargent, John Singer, - 1856-1925 - Exhibitions
Sargent, John Singer, - 1856-1925 - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. - Exhibitions
Sargent, John Singer, - 1856-1925 - Themes, motives - Exhibitions
Sargent, John Singer, - 1856-1925
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
African American men in art - Exhibitions
Artists' models - Exhibitions
Artists' preparatory studies - Exhibitions
Human figure in art - Exhibitions
Mural painting and decoration, American - Massachusetts - Boston - Exhibitions
Nude in art - Exhibitions
African American men in art
Artists' models
Human figure in art
Mural painting and decoration, American
Nude in art
Massachusetts - Boston

Contributor:

Fairbrother, Trevor J., contributor
Fisher, Paul, contributor
Greene, Nikki A. (Nikki Alma Rose), contributor
Hirschler, Erica E., contributor
O'Grady, Lorraine, contributor
Riley, Casey (Curator), contributor
Sargent, John Singer, artist
Silver, Nathaniel E., contributor, curator, editor
Tóibín, Colm, contributor
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, host institution, organizer, publisher

ISBN:

9780300266146 and 0300266146

Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : 136 illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles

Notes:

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, February 13-May 17, 2020

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-253) and index

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

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

Call Number:

NC139.S27 A4 2020eb