Last month we learned what artworks the Obamas had chosen for the family quarters of the White House and the West and East Wing offices. One of the pictures that caught everybody's attention was Watusi (Hard Edge) by Alma Thomas, a lesser known Washington, D.C. area artist who died in 1978. But now that picture has been handed back to the institution it was borrowed from.
Art News is reporting that late last month the White House returned Watusi to the Hirschhorn Museum, one of the several Washington-area museums that were lending works to the White House. Michelle Obama's deputy press secretary has since explained that the painting turned out to be too big for the place in the First Lady's office where it was expected to hang. For more, click HERE....
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