Every president of the United States selects art for the White House. As our 44th president, Barak Obama and his family proceeded to select art – borrowed from three museums in Washington: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art – for the family quarters, east wings, and west wings of the White House.
Below are works I could find of Obama’s personal and White House collections.
Glenn Ligon “Black Like Me No2” 1992
Ed Ruscha “I think I’ll…” 1983
Alma Thomas “Watusi Hard Edge” 1963
Richard Diebenkorn “Berkeley No52” 1955
Josef Albers “Homage to the Square Midday” 1954-57
William H Johnson “Folk Family” 1944
Henry Williams “Model for Steamboat Paddle Wheel” 1877
George Catlin, “Catlin and Indian Attacking Buffalo” (1861-69)
Winslow Homer “Sunset” 1875
Josef Albers
Norman Rockwell “The Problem We All Live With” 1964
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The Seattle Artist League is pleased to announce the extended exhibition “Vivid Shifts,” featuring the work of Alan Byars, a longstanding painting student at the League. After completing his painting “Cool Reflections” (below) which immersed him in meticulous hyper-realism through years of sporadic engagement, Alan decided to find the fun again, with a pivot towards …
I’ve posted 740 V. Notes since the League started in 2016. Can you believe it? Two or three of them were even good! At this year’s end, I’d like to hear from you, creative readers: What are some V. Note posts that you especially enjoyed? How to search for past topics Did you know you …
Hopper is known for his oil paintings, but he also made etchings… Hopper was not initially successful as an artist, so he made ends meet with freelance illustration work… Frank Rehn gave Hopper his first solo show in 1924. Hopper was 42. The Seattle Art Museum expected to receive Chop Suey after the death of …
Obama’s White House Art Collection
Every president of the United States selects art for the White House. As our 44th president, Barak Obama and his family proceeded to select art – borrowed from three museums in Washington: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art – for the family quarters, east wings, and west wings of the White House.
Below are works I could find of Obama’s personal and White House collections.
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