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