Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Resource Information

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Label

Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Title remainder

Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Statement of responsibility

edited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others]

Contributor

• Silver, Nathaniel E.
• Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Artist

• Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

Author

• Silver, Nathaniel E.

Curator

• Silver, Nathaniel E.

Editor

• Silver, Nathaniel E.

Host institution

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Publisher

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Subject

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- Exhibitions
• McKeller, Thomas Eugene, 1890-1962
• Nude in art
• Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 -- Exhibitions
• African American men in art
• Artists' models -- United States

Genre

• Exhibitions

Language

• eng
• eng

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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YUS

Dewey number

759.13

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• facsimiles

Index

index present

LC call number

• NC139.S27
• N6537.S32

LC item number

• A4 2020
• A4 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs

Target audience

specialized