Amy Sherald is one of our greatest living portraitists. What’s her secret?
Amy Sherald’s official portrait of Michelle Obama made her famous. But her other portraits, on view in a traveling ...
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From First Lady to farmer, Amy Sherald paints a Black ‘American Sublime’
In 2017, in the first year of the Obama administration, the First Couple selected two up-and-coming Black artists to paint their official portraits: POTUS went for Kehinde Wiley, and FLOTUS for Amy ...
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Amy Sherald on the gaze and humanity of her portraits
most prominently her portrait of Michelle Obama, captured in a moment of quiet contemplation, rather than official pose, the first Black first lady painted by the first Black woman to receive such ...
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Review: Amy Sherald’s ‘Sublime’ retrospective at SFMOMA
Most people became aware of artist Amy Sherald in 2018, when her official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. At first, some were ...
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Amy Sherald is one of our greatest living portraitists. What’s her secret?
SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Sherald’s official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was revealed to the public in 2018, and as it toured the country over the next few years of the first Trump ...