Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley, oil on canvas,
2018 (© 2018 Kehinde Wiley)
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald, oil on linen,
2018 (NPG)
Mr. Obama claimed to have talked the portraitist out of “mounting me on a horse” or “putting me in these settings with partridges and scepters and chifforobes…”
(© 2018 Pete Souza)
The specially commissioned portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama make their formal museum debut.
(© 2018 Pete Souza)
Photos By Pete Souza