First Lady Michelle Obama, initially titled Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, is a portrait of former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, painted by the artist Amy Sherald. Unveiled in 2018, it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C.

2018年2月13日 · At the Smithsonian unveiling, Michelle Obama and the forty-four-year-old Sherald together pulled down brown wraps to expose a painting of shocking mystery. It is a portrait of the first black...

2024年8月14日 · Already a star in the art world, Sherald became a household name in 2017, when she was tapped to create First Lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait...

• Michelle Obama and Amy Sherald both expressed an interest in bringing “black and brown bodies” into the museum. How does this portrait accomplish that goal? • How does this portrait express Michelle Obama’s individuality? • Michelle Obama is the first African American first lady of the United States.

2024年11月4日 · Amy Sherald, First Lady Michelle Obama, 2018, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA. This artwork is groundbreaking as the first official portrait of a First Lady created by a Black artist, marking a critical moment in American art history.

Painted when Obama was writing her memoir Becoming (2018), this iconic portrait shows her in an introspective mood wearing a Michelle Smith dress reminiscent of the Gee’s Bend quilts made by...

2021年8月15日 · This summer the Art Institute of Chicago welcomes two acclaimed portraits to its galleries: Kehinde Wiley’s painting of President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama.

2018年2月13日 · Amy Sherald took a different approach to Michelle Obama's portrait. She is known for painting African-American subjects in gray scale and surrounding and dressing them in bright...

2018年2月12日 · New portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama were unveiled Monday. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the artist who painted the former first lady's...

“I paint American people, and I tell American stories through my paintings,” said Amy Sherald ’04 (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting M.F.A.) following the unveiling of the official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.