COMMISSIONED WORKS

As part of our mission to shed light on individuals who have shaped American history, past and present, the National Portrait Gallery commissions artists to create portraits of contemporary game-changers. The first-prize winner of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition receives a cash award and the opportunity to make a new portrait of a living sitter for the museum’s permanent collection. Below are the portraits that were commissioned from each of the first-prize winners.

A Portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci by Hugo Crosthwaite

Stop-motion drawing animation and 19 drawings, 2022

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald

Oil on linen, 2018

Esperanza Spalding by Bo Gehring

Single-channel video (color, sound), 2014

Alice Waters by Dave Woody

Inkjet print, 2010

Eunice Kennedy Shriver by David Lenz

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2009