Sophie Lynford is the Theodore Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art, Harvard Art Museums

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Thomas McKeller (detail) (1917–21), John Singer Sargent. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

‘Thomas McKeller was singular among Sargent’s pantheon of models’

What did it mean for a wildly successful artist to paint a black elevator operator in stuffy Boston society?

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