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The event honored acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, best known for her portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama. “When I first began painting portraits, I wasn’t trying to make history,” said Sherald ...

A merican Sublime is the Whitney’s new survey exhibition of the work of Amy Sherald (b. 1973), who soared into the stratosphere of art-world fame in 2018, thanks to her official portrait of ...

Installation view of "Amy Sherald: American Sublime" (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 9-August 10, 2025). "Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama," 2018.

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Amy Sherald’s official portrait of Michelle Obama made her famous. But her other portraits, on view in a traveling retrospective, are far better.

“Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama,” the most famous painting in “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” Sherald’s mid-career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is but one of dozens of ...