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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].
Publication
  • Boston, Massachusetts : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, [2020]
  • New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press
  • Florence, Italy : Conti Typocolor.\
  • ©2020

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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
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Essays.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Illustrated works.
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.
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
ISBN
  • 9780300249866
  • 0300249861
LCCN
2019952309
OCLC
1137756206
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.
Research Call Number
Sc F 21-18
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