{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"The unveiling of painter John Singer Sargent's unsung muse","publication_date":"September 11, 2020","summary":"When John Singer Sargent was commissioned to paint a series of gods and goddesses at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, he turned for inspiration to Thomas McKeller, a young black model. Little has been known about the pair's relationship -- until now. Special correspondent Jared Bowen shares Boston's Apollo, an exhibition that was showing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum before the pandemic.","author_name":"By Jared Bowen, WGBH","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2020\/09\/0eeabf6c2b0880faa52e04c2dcc7326e-bosapollo2-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}