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| “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” by Amy Sherald |
The
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced that Amy Sherald of Baltimore has received first prize in the Outwin Boochever
Portrait Competition 2016 for an oil on canvas titled “Miss Everything
(Unsuppressed Deliverance).”
The painting and 42 other works will be in the museum’s exhibition “The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today” from March 12 through Jan. 8, 2017.
Sherald will receive $25,000 and a commission to create a portrait of a living individual for the museum’s permanent collection.