Source: Kehinde Wiley, Barack Obama, 2018. (© Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.)
Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama places the 44th president amid symbolic flowers: chrysanthemums (the official flower of Chicago), jasmine (in honor of Obama’s birthplace of Hawaii), and African blue lilies (in honor of his Kenyan paternal ancestry).