The Obamas Select Art for the White House
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Watusi (Hard Edge), Alma Thomas, 1963
An African American, Thomas was a longtime resident of Washington. A work inspired by one of the cut-paper collages of Henri Matisse, Watusi now hangs in the East Wing office of Michelle Obama.
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