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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.
Sherald is a graduate of St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School in Columbus. [17] She enrolled at Clark Atlanta University, where Sherald began college on the pre-med track her parents hoped for, but as a sophomore cross-registered for a painting class at Spelman College, which introduced Sherald to Panama-born artist and art historian Arturo Lindsay, whose work focuses on the African influence on ...
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 ...
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. ... Obama also nodded to former White ...
Kehinde Wiley painted Mr. Obama, while Amy Sherald painted Mrs. Obama. [26] [27] Different flowers in the background of Barack Obama's painting are symbolic, with chrysanthemums, for example, representing Chicago, and pikake representing Hawaii. [28]
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 ...
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 ...
As the country continues their reacting to the unveiling of the Obama presidential portraits, some critics are left scratching their heads over Michelle Obama‘s painting.