An oil painting of Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha was unveiled Wednesday as part of an exhibition by artist Elizabeth Peyton, best known for her images of diverse historical figures and ...

The day that Amy Sherald heard that she had been chosen to paint a portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, she called her mom to tell her the news, and then she told her dog. But soon after, the nerves ...

Barack and Michelle Obama have officially selected the artists who will be painting their formal portraits for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery — and their choices are both exciting and ...

Today the New Museum will unveil a painting "in tribute to incoming First Lady Michelle Obama." The portrait, titled "Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National ...

Amy Sherald, a Columbus native and nationally acclaimed artist who has a painting now hanging at the Columbus Museum, has been selected by former first lady Michelle Obama to paint her official ...

Step into “Michelle Fierro: New Paintings” and it’s clear that the L.A. artist is a first-rate noodler. Each of her 17 paintings at c.nichols project in Mar Vista comes off as casual, comfortable in ...

Brand new portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama — wearing matching calm, strong expressions — were revealed on Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in ...

The Baltimore artist Amy Sherald is undergoing her first major public test, with the unveiling Monday of the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama in a ceremony at the National Portrait Gallery in ...