ARLIS/NA recognizes Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent with the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for excellence in art publishing.

 

Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent inaugurates a new chapter in the history of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Being the first to focus on images of a black man and the first to address the history of African American experience in Boston. Featuring drawings given by Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner, published in full for the first time and accompanied by an impressive variety of perspectives from artists, curators, and scholars. Published in association with Yale University Press and edited by the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection Nathaniel Silver, the publication was the output of a distinguished group of contributors: Trevor Fairbrother, Paul Fisher, Nikki A. Greene, Erica E. Hirshler, Lorraine O’Grady, Casey Riley, Nathaniel Silver, and Colm Tóibín. The museum’s Elizabeth Reluga served as project manager, and Alejandro Nodarse was the research assistant. Laura Grey provided a sensitive and sympathetic design, and Conti Tipocolor was the printer and binder. Funding was provided by Amy and David Abrams, Bank of America, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, Chauncey & Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.

 

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