Oprah Winfrey Portrait Unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey (right) stands beside a newly commissioned portrait of herself that unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery on Dec. 13, along with Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren, who painted the portrait. (Ja’Mon Jackson/ The Washington Informer)
Oprah Winfrey called it an unimaginable dream when considering the portrait of her revealed Wednesday at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Painted by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren, a few hundred people gasped and applauded when the drape was pulled from the painting. Winfrey was shown standing in her prayer garden at her home in Montecito, California, wearing a purple taffeta dress d…
