This morning, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official, highly anticipated portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, painted, respectively, by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald.
The portraits, beyond capturing the first black President and First Lady, represent the first-ever official presidential portraits executed by black painters.
The two portraits will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery beginning tomorrow, Tuesday February 13th. While Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama will join the institution’s permanent exhibition of presidential portraits, Amy Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama will hang in its corridor of recent acquisitions through November 2018.
Check out this wonderful video of Kehinde Wiley and his art. It contextualizes some of the elements of his portrait of the president.
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