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Amy Sherald (born August 30, 1973) [1] is an American painter. She works mostly as a portraitist depicting African Americans in everyday settings. Her style is simplified realism , involving staged photographs of her subjects. [ 2 ]
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.
Amy Sherald. In 2020, Sherald’s portrait of Breonna Taylor, originally commissioned for an issue of Vanity Fair guest-edited by her longtime friend Ta-Nehisi Coates, also went viral. Most of the ...
Artist Amy Sherald worked on the portrait of the former first lady, while Kehinde Wiley presented his floral composition of the 44th U.S. commander in chief.
Since opening in 1987, the museum has acquired a collection of more than 6,000 works by more than 1,000 artists, ranging from the 16th century to today. The collection includes works by Mary Cassatt, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, and Amy Sherald.
When police shooting victim Breonna Taylor was gunned down in her own home in March 2020 in Louisville, her name The post Amy Sherald’s Breonna Taylor portrait is now hanging in African American ...
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 ...
The Gordon Parks Foundation announces annual gala and auction honorees, including recognition for Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark. The Gordon The post Gordon Parks Foundation to honor Angela Y. Davis ...