Key to the Museum of Fine Arts Murals

Silver, Nathaniel

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Key to the Museum of Fine Arts Murals

Nathaniel Silver (Editor)

Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Key to the Museum of Fine Arts Murals

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Nathaniel Silver (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21910

Key to the Museum of Fine Arts Murals

Description: Rotunda, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Sargent, John Singer

The Rotunda, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Murals by John Singer Sargent

PAINTINGS

1. Architecture, Painting and Sculpture Protected by Athena from the Ravages of Time

2. Astronomy

3. Classic and Romantic Art

4. Prometheus

5. The Sphinx and the Chimaera

6. Ganymede and the Eagle

7. Apollo and the Muses

8. Music

BAS-RELIEFS

A. Satyr and Nymph

B. Three Dancing Figures

C. Arion

D. Three Graces

E. Chiron and Achilles

F. Aphrodite and Eros

G. Fame

H. Eros and Psyche

Description: Stairway and Side Aisles, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Sargent, John Singer

The Stairway and Side Aisles

Murals by John Singer Sargent

1. The Winds

2. Apollo and His Chariot with the Hours

3. Chiron and Achilles

4. Atlas and the Hesperides

5. Perseus on Pegasus Slaying Medusa

6. Hercules and Hydra

7. Phaethon

8. Orestes Pursued by the Furies

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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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Author

Nathaniel Silver (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date February 2020 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300249866

EISBN 9780300266146

Illustrations 136

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