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

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 ...

AMY SHERALD, Artist: My figures are present ... most prominently her portrait of Michelle Obama, captured in a moment of quiet contemplation, rather than official pose, the first Black first ...

I always drew, or I was painting or looking at paintings ... I found out that Michelle Obama chose me to paint her official portrait in September 2016. I tend to be like really stoic in times ...

Nearly 50 paintings by Amy Sherald, well known for her realist portraits of Black people, are on view at the San Francisco ...

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama made their ... The former first lady's portrait was painted by artist Sharon Sprung, one of few women in history commissioned ...

She chose artist Sharon Sprung for her portrait. Scores of former members ... her intelligence -- and the fact that she's fine." Michelle Obama, when it was her turn, laughingly opened by saying ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Sherald’s official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was revealed to the ... of the first Trump administration, the painting became a sort of traveling relic.

She has painted portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor ... Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks with the artist and takes us to the first major exhibition covering her career ...