Word on the streets is saying that the Smithsonian Institute is interested in purchasing Shepard Fairey’s Obama picee for the National Portrait Gallery.  The price tag for this is $75,000.00.  Will Fairey’s work be displayed in the hallways that house famous portraits of Ab Lincoln and George Washington?

We’ll keep you posted.  This is an exciting time to live in DC.

Shepard Fairey poses for a portrait in front of a mural he created that was inspired by Barack Obama, D-Ill., at the Manifest Hope Gallery in Denver on Monday, Aug. 25, 2008.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)