Simmie Knox - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 23 May 2023 13:35:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Simmie Knox - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 He’s the First African-American to Paint a Presidential Portrait. And He Never Wants to Leave Silver Spring. https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/02/20/simmie-knox-first-african-american-paint-presidential-portrait-silver-spring/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=simmie-knox-first-african-american-paint-presidential-portrait-silver-spring Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:00:43 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=873786 The first African-American painter commissioned for a presidential portrait works out of his home studio in Silver Spring. Here’s what brought him there—and why he’s never left. Artist Simmie Knox considers a commission by Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall to be his big break. But when the Clintons asked him to paint their portraits to […]

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