"关于约翰•辛格•萨金特（John Singer Sargent）晚期**的杰作之一背后的合作故事。

1916年，约翰•辛格•萨金特（1856-1925年）在波士顿的旺多姆饭店遇见了一位年轻的非裔美国电梯服务员托马斯•尤金•麦凯勒（Thomas Eugene McKeller，1890-1962年）。McKeller成为了萨金特壁画的首席模特。这些壁画在波士顿美术博物馆的新侧厅中展出，是这位画家最雄心勃勃的作品之一。萨金特通过这个项目所做的裸体研究和素描证明了近十年来这两个男人之间的密切合作。本书收录了以萨金特给Isabella Stewart Gardner的素描作品，并首次完整出版了McKeller的肖像画以及重建他的生活及其与萨金特关系的档案资料，它为了解艺术家与模特之间的关系开辟了新途径，并转变了我们对萨金特非常有名的美国画。书中的短文首次介绍了McKeller的生平，并提供了一扇了解20世纪初期波士顿的非裔美国人生活的窗户。他们还探讨了这位画家的性倾向，他的模特以及种族和身份问题。

The story of the extraordinary collaboration behind one of John Singer Sargent's renowned late masterpieces

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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