[factory sealed] BOSTON'S APOLLO (YEAR) AUTHOR Gay Male NUDES Photography Muscle Photos

This is a rare unread factory sealed and out of print copy of Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent was edited by Nathaniel Silver and published and distributed by PUBLISHER in 1985 and features the artwork of Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent. This 256 page hardcover book measures The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. See photos for condition.

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.

Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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