Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama unveiled their White House portraits Wednesday at a ceremony with President Joe Biden.
The ceremony was the first since 2012, when former President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush unveiled their White House portraits.
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Barack Obama’s portrait was painted by Robert McCurdy. The portrait features the former president wearing a black suit with a silver tie while he stands in front of a white background.
Michelle Obama’s portrait was painted by Sharon Sprung and features the former first lady sitting on a red couch wearing a blue dress, with a light red background.
“Few mediums can transport us with such immediacy and intimacy than the American portrait. Capturing at once the power, the restraint, the courage, and the beauty of the human spirit. The portraits of our first families stand apart, each a painstaking exploration of a singular person, a human life conveyed in still otherwise ever in motion and otherwise fulfilling the obligations to their oath,” John Rogers, the chairman of the White House Historical Association, said at the portrait unveiling ceremony.
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The White House Historical Association has been responsible for the portraits of presidents and first ladies at the White House since 1965. The group was founded in 1961 by then-first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
