When Barack Obama's official portrait by Kehinde Wiley was revealed earlier this week, it stood out immediately from previous depictions of presidents, eliciting strong responses from both fans of ...

By phone from his home in Tenants Harbor, Maine, Wyeth explained how he turned down the commission for an official portrait but still wanted to attempt a more unconventional painting of JFK.

and Jacqueline Kennedy were unveiled at a private White House event in 1971 — seven years after JFK was ... through an official ceremony.” When former president Gerald Ford’s portrait ...