<I>Hope</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2008
name: label: Created by
content: Shepard Fairey, American, born 1970
label: Subject of
content: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
notes: label: Description
content: A lithograph titled “Hope” by Shepard Fairey. Using the color palette of red, beige, blue, and dark blue, the poster is a headshot of Barack Obama from the chest up wearing a suit with a red tie. Obama’s proper left side of the face and background are red and the proper right side of his face is highlighted in white and shadowed with blue, the same color as the background. He is looking slightly up and into the distance. At the bottom of the poster in blue text is [HOPE]. Above the letter “E” is Obama’s campaign logo, a blue half circle representing the sun rising over a field made of red and white stripes.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Government
label: Topic
content: Graphic design
label: Topic
content: Political organizations
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.39.14
objectType: label: Type
content: offset lithographs
label: Type
content: posters
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Shepard Fairey
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 36 × 24 in. (91.4 × 61 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (mat): 40 1/8 × 28 in. (101.9 × 71.1 cm)