The portraits of the Obamas unveiled at the White House with a little delay

Tradition would have it that Donald Trump organizes the ceremony. It was finally Joe Biden who invited the former president and his wife Michelle.

UNITED STATES - Joe Biden is reviving a tradition abandoned by Donald Trump. This Wednesday, September 7, the President of the United States invited Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House for the ceremony unveiling their portraits which will be hung on the walls of the American presidential residence.

"I'm glad to be back ," Barack Obama told members of the administration. "I want to thank Sharon Sprung [who painted Michelle Obama's portrait] for capturing everything I love about Michelle: her grace, her intelligence, and the fact that she's hot ," he continued. to applause. “I want to thank Robert McCurdy [who did his portrait] for dealing with a much more difficult subject ,” he joked.

The Obamas returned to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Wednesday for the long-awaited (and long-delayed) unveiling ceremony of their official White House portraits, the first time the tradition has taken place in a decade.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted the ceremony, which marked the first joint return to the White House for the Obamas since they left in 2017 following the Trump inauguration (The Obamas received a standing ovation when they arrived for the ceremony).

For his portrait, former President Barack Obama selected artist Robert McCurdy, an American known for his photo-realistic portraits of famous figures like the 14th Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, saying he was drawn to McCurdy’s style to depict subjects “exactly as they are, for better or for worse.”

Obama is presented in the portrait in typical McCurdy style, facing the viewer head-on wearing a suit in front of a plain white background.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait was painted by Sharon Sprung, a Brooklyn-based artist that specializes in portraits of the female form who painted the former first lady in a blue gown reclining in what appears to be the Red Room of the White House.

Wednesday’s ceremony was long overdue— when a president and first lady leave the White House, their immediate successors usually welcome them back for an often bipartisan ceremony to unveil the portraits, a tradition former President Donald Trump bucked during his administration, reportedly over his poor relationship with Obama.

The Covid-19 pandemic also forced the ceremony to be pushed back, White House Historical Association President Stewart McLaurin told CNN, saying it was important for the portraits to be placed on display when the public is able to visit and see them in person (public tours of the White House were only reinstated in April).

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