Nearly 50 paintings by Amy Sherald, well known for her realist portraits of Black people, are on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the artist's first mid-career survey. Continuing ...
A young man in stars and stripes and cowboy hat, paintings hung a little lower than usual, says artist Amy Sherald, directly at eye level. AMY SHERALD, Artist: My figures are present. They're not ...
As a child I was very quiet. I always drew, or I was painting or looking at paintings in encyclopedias. I kept myself busy with pencil and paper all the time. Art is the thing that I knew I had to ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Sherald’s official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was revealed to the public in 2018, and as it toured the country over the next few years of the first Trump ...
But audiences, who doubled attendance at the Portrait Gallery in the first two years after the painting was on display, quickly embraced an image that invited them to look past skin color and focus on ...
Amy Sherald’s official portrait of Michelle Obama made her famous. But her other electrically colorful paintings, on view in a traveling retrospective, are far better.
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Amy Sherald's An Ocean Away (2020), a promised gift from Willow Bay and Robert Igern, was one of many works depicting Black Americans that the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art acquired in ...