I must confess, I did not know this portrait existed. Click the pic to hear the Slavic mellifluous ramblings of an Art Talk on KCRW. Obama as a champion of the arts. John Fitzgerald Kennedy/ Elaine de Kooning,1963/ Oil on canvas/ National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/ © Elaine de Kooning Trust for more info go to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery blog on it.