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Chapter 3. Thomas McKeller sous rature: John Singer Sargent’s Erasure of a Black Model
Nikki A. Greene
Description: Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
In 1916, at Isabella Stewart Gardner’s home at Fenway Court, a British guest asked John Singer Sargent whether he was painting any portraits, and he stated with “a wry face”: “No. I’m only painting mountains and niggers.”Mount 1969, 337. Sargent’s racist comment deliberately...
Author
Nikki A. Greene
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Related print edition pages: pp.63-81
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00277.003
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21903
Chapter subject tags:Racism in artBaldwin, James, 1924-1987Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979Artists' models, Black

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Chapter 3. Thomas McKeller sous rature: John Singer Sargent’s Erasure of a Black Model