Smithsonian says the celebrated portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will come to Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Houston.
Celebrated paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will embark on a five-city tour in summer 2021, the museum announced Thursday, giving residents in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Atlanta and Houston a chance to see in person the works that sparked a media frenzy when they wereKehinde Wiley’s official portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s painting of the first lady, like the Obamas themselves, broke boundaries. L.A.
The other participating museums are the Art Institute of Chicago, where the exhibition will debut in June 2021; the Brooklyn Museum; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.The Michelle Obama portrait, an oil on linen, is elegant and direct, conveying confidence and self possession. The artist’s use of color — or lack thereof in the gray-scale skin tones — is Sherald’s attempt to “exclude the idea of color as race,” she has said.
“This tour is an opportunity for audiences in different parts of the country to witness how portraiture can engage people in the beauty of dialogue and shared experience,” she said in the tour announcement.
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