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If You Surrendered to the Air, You Could Ride It
2019 · Oil on linen
Overall: 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Amy Sherald
1973
PaintingContemporary
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Amy Sherald paints large-scale figurative portraits rendered in grisaille skin tones against vivid, flat color fields, situating Black American subjects in scenes of quiet, everyday self-possession. She received wide public attention for her official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, commissioned by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Source: Hauser Wirth · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
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