Fit for a T: New at the Portrait Gallery

That campaign-defining image of Barack Obama that burned itself into your brain this past year is headed to the National Portrait Gallery.

The original red-and-blue "Hope" collage by graphic designer Shepard Fairey that inspired countless posters, T-shirts and buttons has been obtained by the gallery via a gift from Washington superlobbyists Tony and Heather Podesta.

The two are longtime fans of Fairey who have several other works of his in their large, eye-popping modern-art collection. Though they've donated to other local museums, this is their first to the Portrait Gallery -- and the Portrait Gallery's first Obama image to join its permanent collection.

"It seemed like a historic moment for the country, and a chance to do something for art and Democrats," Tony Podesta, brother of transition co-chairman John Podesta, told us. The gift is in honor of their late mother, Mary K. Podesta, who became an ardent supporter of the future president after meeting him at their fundraiser for his 2004 Senate race. "She would giggle and say, 'He liked my cooking!' " Heather Podesta recalled.

The surprisingly large work -- 60 inches by 44 inches -- will hang in the "new arrivals" gallery on the museum's first floor, where its nearby neighbor will be the newly unveiled Laura Bush portrait. Gallery spokeswoman Bethany Bentley said it will be up by Inauguration Day.

The Bush China, Off the Shelf at Last

Laura Bush is scheduled this morning to unveil a brand new set of White House table settings -- the George W. Bush State China. Now? But they have only two weeks to use it! Actually, the timing isn't unusual. Hillary Clinton didn't roll out the Clinton china -- the stuff still in use -- until late 2000; Lady Bird Johnson brought out hers in 1968, just in time for the Nixons. Takes a while to design, it seems, and not every administration gets to have its own.

First ladies from Mary Lincoln to Nancy Reagan took flak for the perceived extravagance of new china, said historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony -- but the reality is that things break: "Every 10 years or so there's a need for it," he said, "and then it becomes a legacy thing." Private foundations paid for the Clinton and Reagan china; sources said no tax dollars will go to the Bush china either.

LOVE, ETC.

· Born: A son to CBS correspondent Lara Logan and new husband Joe Burkett, a defense contractor she met in Baghdad, last week at Sibley Hospital. All is well, everyone is home, and she says she's "totally in love" with her firstborn.

· Wed: Craig Ferguson, to longtime girlfriend Megan Wallace Cunningham, an art dealer, over the holidays. "I am European, so I was both the groom and the maid of honor," he joked on his late-night talk show Monday. And, yes, the Scotsman wore a kilt.

· Splitting: Patricia Arquette, and actor-husband of two-plus years, Thomas Jane. Irreconcilable differences, according to the "Medium" star's court filing. They have a 5-year-old daughter.

THIS JUST IN . . .

· Levi Johnston, the fiance of Sarah Palin's daughter, has quit his oil field job amid questions over how he got the electrical apprenticeship without a high school diploma, the Anchorage Daily News reported. An Alaska radio talk-show host had raised the issue, suggesting that the governor might have helped him land the gig. Palin denied it, and Johnston's father told reporters it was his own work with the contractor that helped the 18-year-old get the job. Still, Keith Johnston said he advised his son to resign and start working on his GED. Johnston's fiancee, Bristol Palin, also 18, gave birth to their son, Tripp, last month.