After A Late Start An Artist S Big Break Michelle Obama S Official Portrait The New York Times from static01.nyt.com
The unveiling of the portraits of president barack obama and first lady michelle obama has created an unprecedented surge of. Amy sherald makes about 13 paintings a year. Sherald, 44 years old and based in baltimore, depicted the former first lady in her signature style, which renders skin tones in shades of gray.
It's hard for me to find people to paint, she said.
Barack and michelle obama revealed their official portraits today at the smithsonian national portrait gallery in washington d.c.—and the works are the former first lady's portrait was created by amy sherald, the first woman to win the national portrait gallery's outwin boochever portrait competition. Obama selected amy sherald, winner of the 2016 outwin boochever portrait competition, to create her official portrait for the museum. The artist had been diagnosed eight years earlier with idiopathic cardiomyopathy—a disease of the sherald, of course, is the artist behind the now famous official portrait of michelle obama that hangs in the smithsonian. But many people didn't get it, and to her, that's just fine.
