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Barack and Michelle Obama have added several modern and contemporary artworks to the White House collection during their final year in residence. New acquisitions include works by Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Sam Francis, Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alma Thomas, replacing traditional portraits of former first ladies. The pieces were sourced partly through museum loans, such as two Hopper paintings from the Whitney Museum of American Art for the Oval Office.