sargent & mckeller

Chat 4 (August 25)

"Boston's Apollo: Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890–1962) and John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)," ISGM, February 13- October 20, 2020

EXPLORE

"Boston's Apollo" exhibition landing page at the Gardner's website, including gallery guide with individual objects.

"Boston's Apollo" exhibition catalogue (Yale University Press), available for purchase.

Other recent interrogations of black representation in Western art around the web:

Cf. "Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," archived exhibition with virtual tour, at the Wallach Gallery, Columbia.

Cf. "On Being Present: Recovering Blackness in the Uffizi Galleries," web project at the Uffizi, Florence.

REVIEWS

Holland Cotter, "John Singer Sargent's Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows," NY Times, 7 May 2020. https://nyti.ms/2ys7ur2

Lloyd Schwartz, "'Boston's Apollo' Names John Singer Sargent's Black Model and Tells His Story," ARTery (WBUR), 8 April 2020, (read online)

Jackson Davidow, "AN EXHIBITION ILLUMINATES THE CHARGED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOHN SINGER SARGENT AND HIS BLACK MUSE, THOMAS MCKELLER," Art in America, 11 May 2020, (read online)

WATCH

N.B. These first two videos introduce the exhibition. The last video concerns an earlier exhibition, "Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," which explored similar themes as "Boston's Apollo" with regard to the relationship between models and artists and the changing mode of representation of the black figure as central to the development of modern art.

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