Portrait of Michelle Obama (2018)

An oil painting of Michelle Obama, seated, wearing a long white dress with patches of colored stripes and triangles, against light-blue background. Her left hand rests on her knee, her right elbow rests on her left wrist, and her chin rests on her upraised right hand.

Source: “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama” by Amy Sherald, oil on linen, 2018. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and Kent Whealy; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia. Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

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Amy Sherald, Portrait of Michelle Obama (2018)

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