Aretha Franklin purchased the ... runner-up who went on to a prominent career as a portrait artist, creating many of her works in a backyard art studio, now a patio. Her subjects included Rosa ...

While watching the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009, Ziehm was struck by Franklin’s performance of “America,” which inspired her to paint a vivid portrait ... when I saw Aretha Franklin ...

Aretha Franklin is known as the “Queen of Soul,” a moniker that will be celebrated in a new box set of her work. Out via BMG on December 1, A Portrait of the Queen – 1970-1974 collects the ...