When Chuck Close Met Barack Obama
Chuck Close with “Obama I” and “Obama II” (both 2012). The Jacquard tapestries, published by Magnolia Editions, will be sold at a fundraiser at Lever House on October 3.
“Well, you know, my friends call me Barack,” the President told Chuck Close when the two met earlier this year for a portrait sitting in Washington D.C. “I didn’t do it,” says the artist of calling Obama by his first name. “But I think he was letting me know I could.”
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