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Chapter 2. “Atlas, with the World on His Shoulders, This Was My Body”: Thomas McKeller and His Work with John Singer Sargent
Paul Fisher
Description: Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
Sometime in 1916, Thomas E. McKeller encountered John Singer Sargent in an elevator at Boston’s Hotel Vendome, participating in an exchange that would impact the lives of both men. Twenty-six-year-old McKeller was a hotel...
Author
Paul Fisher
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Related print edition pages: pp.41-61
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00277.002
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21902
Chapter subject tags:RacismAfrican Americans--HistoryArtists' models, Black

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Chapter 2. “Atlas, with the World on His Shoulders, This Was My Body”: Thomas McKeller and His Work with John Singer Sargent