Live Forever Exhibition Tour

01/11/2008 - 21/03/2010

Michelle Obama portrait added to Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton exhibition

The New Museum on the Lower East Side, New York unveiled a portrait of Michelle Obama, the wife of President-elect Barack Obama, painted by Elizabeth Peyton, this month (November 2008).

The work, titled “Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008,” is an oil painting that depicts Mrs. Obama in the audience at her husband’s convention speech as the couple’s younger daughter, Sasha, rests her head in her mother’s lap.

The painting joins the New Museum’s exhibition “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton,” a collection of portraits of noteworthy personalities like Kurt Cobain, Matthew Barney, and Marc Jacobs.

Exhibition Dates:

NOW - 11th January 2009              New Museum, New York USA

14 February - 14 June 2009            Walker Art Center, Minneapolis USA

9 July - 20 September 2009            Whitechapel Art Gallery, London United Kingdom
 
21 October 2009 - 21 March 2010   Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht Netherlands