Like the historic Lansdowne painting of Washington, Obama’s portrait is rife with symbolism. But where Gilbert Stuart flirts with the splendors of the office of the President, Wiley alludes to the ...

National Portrait Gallery unveils official Obama portraits in a ceremony (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama joined the ...

The portraits were done by acclaimed African-American artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald. "Pretty sharp!" Barack Obama quipped of his portrait, painted by Kehinde Wiley, an artist best known for ...

As a testament to Obama’s prominent public image and popularity, professors in the sociology department — in which Obama concentrated — and the Center for African American Studies unveiled her senior ...