Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
- Title
- Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent / edited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others].
- Published by
- Boston, Massachusetts : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, [2020]
- New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press
- Florence, Italy : Conti Typocolor.\
- ©2020
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Details
- Additional authors
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925.
- Silver, Nathaniel E.
- Fisher, Paul, 1952-
- Greene, Nikki A. (Nikki Alma Rose)
- O'Grady, Lorraine
- Hirschler, Erica E.
- Fairbrother, Trevor J.
- Riley, Casey (Curator)
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution
- Description
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles; 29 cm
- 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"
- Alternative title
- Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
- Subject
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 > Exhibitions
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 > Criticism and interpretation
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 > Themes, motives, etc
- McKeller, Thomas, 1890-1962
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- 1900-2099
- Artists' models > Biography
- African American men in art
- Nude in art
- Human figure in art
- Mural painting and decoration, American > Massachusetts > Boston > 20th century
- Artists' models
- Mural painting and decoration, American
- Massachusetts > Boston
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- 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.
- Call number
- Sc F 21-18
- Note
- Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, February 13-May 17, 2020.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-253) and index.
- Title
- Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent / edited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others].
- Publisher
- Boston, Massachusetts : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, [2020]
- Distributor
- New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press
- Manufacturer
- Florence, Italy : Conti Typocolor.\
- Copyright date
- ©2020
- Type of content
- text
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-253) and index.
- Event
- "Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent" : February 13-May 17, 2020, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
- Chronological term
- 1900-2099
- Place of publication
- United States Massachusetts Suffolk Boston.
- Added author
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, artist.
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. Works. Selections.
- Silver, Nathaniel E., editor, curator, contributor.
- Fisher, Paul, 1952- contributor.
- Greene, Nikki A. (Nikki Alma Rose), contributor.
- O'Grady, Lorraine, contributor.
- Hirschler, Erica E., contributor.
- Fairbrother, Trevor J., contributor.
- Riley, Casey (Curator), contributor.
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955- contributor.
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
- LCCN
- 2019952309
- ISBN
- 9780300249866 hardcover
- 0300249861 hardcover
- Research call number
- Sc F 21-18