Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

"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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sargent, John Singer 1856-1925 (IllustratorIn), Silver, Nathaniel (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:"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."
Beschreibung:Rückseite Titelblatt: First published to accompany the exhibition "Boston's Apollo. Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent", curated by Nathaniel Silver, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 13 February - 17 May 2020
Beschreibung:256 Seiten 29 cm

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