New portraits of Obama unveiled at Smithsonian

December 4, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
Washington, D.C.

Unprecedented portraits of an American president are on display at the Smithsonian Castle through the rest of December. The five portraits of President Obama were maid from 3D scans, the first ever done of a sitting president. The scans were performed by experts from the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Artists combined the scans with camera images to create a bust. Obama’s life mask joins three others at the National Portrait Gallery, those of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.