Posted on 04/06/2025 5:45:07 PM PDT by simpson96
The artist behind a portrait of Donald Trump in the Colorado State Capitol says her career could be in tatters now that the president has besmirched it on social media.
Sarah Boardman’s painting of the president had hung in the Denver building for six years before Trump called it “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst” on his Truth Social platform in January, prompting state lawmakers to yank it off the wall.
Now the artist’s 41-year career “is in danger of not recovering” from the backlash, Boardman said in a statement on her website on Saturday.
“For the 6 years that the portrait hung in the Colorado State Capitol Building Rotunda, I received overwhelmingly positive reviews and feedback,” Boardman said. “Since President Trump’s comments, that has changed for the worst.”
It was Colorado Republicans who had actually raised more than $10,000 through a GoFundMe account to commission the oil painting during Trump’s first term in 2019.
Continue watching This Day in History after the ad
But the president now says he would rather have no portrait at all than Boardman’s work hanging up, comparing it to a nearby portrait of former President Barack Obama, who Trump said “looks wonderful.
“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the state Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” Trump wrote.
Boardman countered in her statement, “I completed the portrait accurately, without ‘purposeful distortion,’ political bias, or any attempt to caricature the subject, actual or implied. I fulfilled the task per my contract.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It doesn’t look like him.
Thanks for the feel good story.
I suspect he didn’t actually pose for her.
Gee, thats too bad.Thats what happens when your politics gets in the way.
I guess Trump expects that every portrait should be photo realistic.
But that’s not how art works. (I guess QEII didn’t particularly like every portrait of her that was done, either...)
It’s not an overly bad portrait… His face just looks a little too fat.
But she should’ve had him sit for a portrait to get it more realistic view.
Looks like a cross between Lou Dobbs and Trump. Really doesn’t capture his look and style at all. Maybe she should give it another try instead of crying.
It’s William Shatner.
Something IS off.
She had no problem making with these two look good, did she? [from her Facebook page]
It probably looks very like whatever photo she worked from.
She’s obviously talented, and I don’t think the President’s dissatisfaction is going to ‘doom’ her career.
I feel bad for her but it looks like he has a cancerous growth on the right side of his chin.
Is that Jon Voight?
I rather like that one. Why do you think it’s the ‘worst’?
These are very good.
Who is that in the top one and why is Bathhouse Barry’s head warped?
Looks more like a self portrait!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.