


Award-winning television host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey unveiled a portrait of herself at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Wednesday.
Winfrey joins a prestigious collection of portraits at the gallery including Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and former President Barack Obama.
Winfrey commissioned Chicago-based portrait artist Shawn Michael Warren to paint her portrait after seeing one of his latest works he helped co-create: a life-size mural of Winfrey in Chicago’s West loop, close to where the Oprah Winfrey Show was filmed.
“I thank you so much for capturing the strength, for capturing the joy, for capturing the sense of contentment that I feel,” Winfrey said to Warren after her portrait was hung up inside the gallery.