Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

In Amy Sherald's unique visual language, muted yet commanding Black subjects are set against bold color fields. These ...

The painter's most heralded pieces, including portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, find a home in New York City.

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this ...

"American Sublime," the sweeping Amy Sherald survey, arrives at the Whitney Museum in New York, bringing together almost 50 ...

Most people only know Sherald through photographs of this one work. But as Sherald has said, “I had a career before Michelle ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...

A full-blown army of art world elites stormed the Whitney this past Tuesday and Wednesday to toast the artist and her work.

As Arewà Basit walked up to view her portrait for the first time at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she could barely hold ...

“Though she has been known for these two moments, Mrs. Obama and Breonna Taylor’s portraits, she has been a working artist for 25 years,” Rujeko Hockley, the show’s curator, said in a press preview at ...

A decade ago, Amy Sherald was still struggling to make her mark. But even before she was commissioned to paint former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait, she knew she'd have a major museum ...