He’s also done portraits of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the Dalai Lama, among others. “They have plain white backgrounds, nobody gestures, nobody — there are ...

He’s also done portraits of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the Dalai Lama, among others. “They have plain white backgrounds, nobody gestures, nobody — there are ...

In the portrait of Michelle Obama, who celebrates her birthday this week, she wears a Jason Wu design. Robert McCurdy painted President Barack Obama against a plain white background, which was ...