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#316588 Arte Disegno

Boston's Apollo: Thomas Mckeller and John Singer Sargent.

Curator: Edited by Nathaniel Silver, Trevor Fairbrother, Paul Fisher, Nikki A. Greene, Erica E. Hirshler.
Publisher: Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Date of publ.:
Details: cm.22,5x30, pp.256 ill. legatura editoriale cartonata copertina figurata a colori.

Abstract: 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.

EAN: 9780300249866
EUR 63.00
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