Official Obama Portrait Released

(Jan. 14) - The Office of the President-Elect today released the new official portrait for Barack Obama, who will take the oath of office on Tuesday.

New White House photographer Pete Souza captured the image on a digital camera, a first for an official presidential portrait.

Last week, The Smithsonian Institution museum announced it acquired the iconic red, white and blue collage of Obama with the word “Hope” appearing at the bottom. It became one of the most memorable images of the presidential race. The art will be hung at the U.S. National Portrait Gallery before the Inauguration, the museum said.

Curators at the museum also announced that the caption for the official portrait of President George W. Bush would be tweaked today.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent, had objected to wording in the caption that said Bush's time in office was "marked by a series of catastrophic events" including "the attacks on September 11, 2001, that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."

In a Jan. 7 letter to the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Sanders said the notion the terrorist attacks were linked to or led to the Iraq war has been widely debunked.

Gallery Director Martin Sullivan wrote back Monday to say the label will be revised and will delete the words "led to."

Click through the photos above to see the official portraits of Obama, Bush and those of past presidents. The photos below show how presidents have aged while in office.