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In 2017, for her portrait for the National Portrait Gallery, former First Lady Michelle Obama chose the artist Amy Sherald, who like Obama is African American. [1] Both the President and First Lady met with Sherald as a candidate to paint their respective portraits, but Sherald and Michelle Obama had an immediate connection.
Picturing the Obamas is a 2022 two-part documentary television series by the Smithsonian Channel documenting the history of the official portraits of former American President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, by respective artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald and the tour of the portraits being displayed in museums in ...
Members of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, the Smithsonian Institution, and White House staff discuss the creation of Barack Obama's 3D portrait. Barack Obama was the first president to have his portrait taken with a digital camera in January 2009 by Pete Souza , the then–official White House photographer, [ 23 ] using a Canon ...
Michelle Obama's official portrait was unveiled inside the Smithsonian Museum -- and like her husband's, it was far from traditional. Painted by artist Amy Sherald, the former FLOTUS is pictured ...
Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018, oil on linen.National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for ...
Michelle Obama has a magnetic personality — and the same goes for her official portrait. Why Michelle Obama's portrait had to be moved at the Smithsonian Skip to main content
In October 2017, it was announced that Wiley had been chosen by Barack Obama to paint an official portrait of the former president to appear in Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery "America's Presidents" exhibition. [1] The painting depicts Obama sitting in a chair seemingly floating among foliage. [2]
Former President Barack Obama and wife, Michelle Obama, celebrated the unveiling of their official portraits at the National Portrait Gallery on Monday, as the nation observed the latest art ...