'Apollo' 1920. Collotype on paper. A study, originally for the mural at the Boston Public Library, and was printed by the Guild of Boston Artists when each artist was the Guild's featured member. Signed at the bottom left inside the image. 30 x 26"

In 1916, John Singer Sargent met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890–1962), a young black elevator attendant, at Boston’s Hotel Vendome, and McKeller became an important model in Sargent’s major artistic commissions in and around Boston. His depictions of McKeller were the basis for both male and female figures of gods and goddesses. The nature of these depictions and their transformation from the model to the paintings call attention to questions of race, class, and sexuality, and the questions they raise are as relevant today as they were in Gilded Age Boston. Every lot is sold "as is," "where is," and "without warranty," whether express or implied. Art has not been examined outside of the frame unless otherwise stated.

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