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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Katie Anthony

Oprah Winfrey portrait, done by Chicago artist, unveiled at National Portrait Gallery

Oprah Winfrey reacts as she and Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren, right, unveil Warren’s portrait of Winfrey on Wednesday at a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington. (Associated Press)

It seemed only fitting that Oprah Winfrey chose to wear a flowing, full-length purple dress for her portrait unveiled Wednesday at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

She told the assembled crowd that she wore purple not because a musical remake of the movie that launched her career is coming out later this month: “I chose to wear the color purple because for me, that color has been seminal in my life.”

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