About Elizabeth Peyton

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    "Angela Merkel’s Humanity, Captured in an Elizabeth Peyton Oil" by Melissa Eddy, July 23, 2017, Art & Design section, The New York Times.

    “Her face is so determined and tender,” the artist Elizabeth Peyton said of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor."

    BERLIN — The last time Vogue profiled a prominent European female leader, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, she agreed to be captured by Annie Leibovitz in a rainbow array of coats and her trademark leopard-print kitten heels.

    But for the August 2017 issue, featuring another — perhaps the most — powerful woman in Europe, the likeness of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was rendered not in a glossy shoot by Ms. Leibovitz, the star photographer, bu...

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