The gallery said scholars used X-rays, ultraviolet examination, microphotography and paint samples to test the Flower portrait, named for one of its owners, Sir Desmond Flower, who gave it to the ...

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington ... From this deep green background emerges three types of flowers, each representing a part of the former president’s history.

When Barack Obama speaks, people listen. At least they did when he was in the White House. But that kind of authority didn’t hold much sway when it came time for his presidential portrait, which ...

2018 Kehinde Wiley In the double-duty world of semiotics, or the reading of signs, the language of flowers has for ... also on view at the National Portrait Gallery. The treatment in President ...