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Pieces by contemporary African-American and Native American artists are on display. Bold colours, odd shapes and squiggly lines have arrived. So, too, have some obscure artefacts, such as patent models for a gear cutter and a steamboat paddlewheel, which now sit in the Oval Office. Works by big names from the modern art world – Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko – are rubbing shoulders with lesser-known artists such as Alma Thomas, an abstract painter from the 1960s and 1970s. Thomas’s Watusi (Hard Edge) hangs in the east wing, where Michelle Obama has her offices. The acrylic on canvas, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum, shows a jumble of geometric shapes in bright reds, blues and greens. Glenn Ligon’s Black Like Me No 2, a Hirshhorn loan now hanging in the first family’s living quarters, is a “text painting” that reproduces words from the 1961 book Black Like Me, a non-fiction account by a white man who disguised himself as a black man and travelled through the south. Ligon, a black artist from Brooklyn, said the painting’s theme fitted with the president’s efforts to create a dialogue between races. “It’s a really important part of what he’s about and symbolically what he’s done,” he said. Jeri Redcorn, a 69-year-old Native American artist from Norman, Oklahoma, whose pottery is on a bookshelf in the Oval Office, said the Obamas’ selections represented “a bridge, and a reaching out to other cultures”. “To have this artwork in the Oval Office is like a beautiful tribute to the way that my ancestors did things,” she said. Working with the California decorator Michael Smith and the White House curator, William Allman, the Obamas have borrowed dozens of works from various Washington museums and galleries, being sure to use only items not already on display. Other recent first families hung a few modern pieces in their living quarters, but none approached the scope of the Obamas, Allman said. Smith ferried lists back and forth between the White House and the galleries as the Obamas narrowed down their choices. “The first lady had clear ideas about what they were aiming for,” Allman said. “They knew their tastes, and Michael Smith knew a lot about their tastes.” Other selections include Edward Ruscha’s I Think I’ll, which superimposes phrases such as “I think I’ll …” and “maybe … no” on top of a blood-red sunset; Susan Rothenberg’s Butterfly, which shows a horse with an x through it; and Richard Diebenkorn’s Berkeley No 52, an abstract oil on canvas in soft colours based on the landscape of Berkeley, California. Scanning a list provided by the first lady’s office of dozens of pieces of artwork-on-loan, Richard Feigen, a private art dealer in New York, pronounced it “highly sophisticated”. “We’re encouraged as far as the art world,” Feigen said. “We feel we have someone now in the White House who is saying that culture is an important part of this country.” The artwork is on display only in the first family’s living quarters and office areas. Any changes to the historic public spaces – such as the Blue Room or the state dining room – must be approved by the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, which has yet to meet in the Obama administration.
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