Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

著者

    • Sargent, John Singer
    • Silver, Nathaniel E.
    • Fisher, Paul
    • Greene, Nikki A. (Nikki Alma Rose)
    • O'Grady, Lorraine
    • Hirschler, Erica E.
    • Fairbrother, Trevor J.
    • Riley, Casey (Curator)
    • Tóibín, Colm
    • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

書誌事項

Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

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

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, [2020], ©2020 , Distributed by Yale University Press , Conti Typocolor, )

タイトル別名

Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), still image (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-253) and index

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 qu

"Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent" February 13-May 17, 2020 the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

収録内容

  • 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

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The story of the extraordinary collaboration behind one of John Singer Sargent's renowned late masterpieces In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962), a young African American elevator attendant, at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller became the principal model for Sargent's murals in the new wing of the city's Museum of Fine Arts, among the painter's most ambitious works. Sargent's nude studies and sketches from this project attest to a close collaboration between the two men that unfolded over nearly ten years. Featuring drawings given by Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner and published in full for the first time, a portrait of McKeller, and archival materials reconstructing his life and relationship with Sargent, this book opens new avenues into artist-model relationships and transforms our understanding of Sargent's iconic American paintings. Essays offer the first biography of McKeller and a window onto African American life in early-20th-century Boston. They also address the artist's sexuality, his models, and questions of race and identity. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Exhibition Schedule: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (February 13-October 12, 2020)

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