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Sherald, who is 51, composes her scenes with extreme deliberation. She picks out models for her paintings and outfits them with costumes and props.

Jack Whitten, Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald and others are headlining New York’s top museum shows during the city’s peak art season.

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.

Painter Amy Sherald asks: What is American? Arewà Basit poses in front of Trans Forming Liberty (2024), a 10-foot oil painting by Amy Sherald for which she served as the model. (Sansho Scott/BFA.com) ...

Arewà Basit poses in front of Trans Forming Liberty (2024), a 10-foot oil painting by Amy Sherald for which she served as the model. Updated May 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM EDT ...

Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018, oil on linen Sherald relies heavily on reference photographs she takes of chosen models or people encountered in her own daily life before setting ...