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Silver, Nathaniel

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Photographic Credits

Nathaniel Silver (Editor)

Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Photographic Credits

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Nathaniel Silver (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21913

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The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY: fig. 102

Courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photography by Dwight Primiano: fig. 67

Sean Dungan: figs. 83, 85, 89

Image courtesy of A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings, LLC; Seattle, Washington: fig. 56

David Mathews: cover, page 6, figs. 32, 33, 64, 65, 81, 82, cat. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 21

© 2020 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: page 2, 242–43, 244, 246, figs. 1, 4, 10, 12, 13, 14, 20, 22, 24, 25, 36, 53, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 79, 92, 93, 95, 97, 100, 103, cats. 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27

J.B. Pratt: figs. 86, 88, 90, 91

The William Dunn Sturrock Photograph Collection, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Archives, Miami, Florida: fig. 7

UCL Art Museum, University College London, UK / Bridgeman Images: fig. 59

“United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1: MFMJ-SYQ : accessed 11 July 2019), Thomas E Mckellar (sic) in household of George W. Brown, Boston Ward 7, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing ED 202, sheet 6B, line 69, family 103, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 732; FHL microfilm 1,820,732: fig. 26

Worcester Art Museum / Bridgeman Images: fig. 30

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BOOKBoston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Nathaniel Silver (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00277

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21897

Winner of the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)

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.

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Nathaniel Silver (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date February 2020 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300249866

EISBN 9780300266146

Illustrations 136

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