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Artist who painted ‘worst’ Trump portrait for Colorado State Capitol says 41-year career may be doomed after prez’s criticism
NY Post ^ | 04/06/2025 | Jared Downing

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.

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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.”

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1 posted on 04/06/2025 5:45:07 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

It doesn’t look like him.


2 posted on 04/06/2025 5:46:26 PM PDT by madison10 (God chose President Trump. Satan chose judges and Democrats.)
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To: simpson96

Thanks for the feel good story.


3 posted on 04/06/2025 5:46:39 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: madison10

I suspect he didn’t actually pose for her.


4 posted on 04/06/2025 5:47:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: simpson96

Gee, thats too bad.Thats what happens when your politics gets in the way.


5 posted on 04/06/2025 5:48:57 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: simpson96

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...)


6 posted on 04/06/2025 5:49:17 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: simpson96

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.


7 posted on 04/06/2025 5:49:37 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: simpson96

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.


8 posted on 04/06/2025 5:51:08 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: simpson96

It’s William Shatner.


9 posted on 04/06/2025 5:51:15 PM PDT by granite ("It's a Barnum and Bailey World, Just as Phony as it can be.")
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To: simpson96

Something IS off.


10 posted on 04/06/2025 5:51:22 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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11 posted on 04/06/2025 5:51:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96
Actually THIS is the worst portrait ever of Donald Trump.

 

National Portrait Gallery To Install Photograph of President-elect Donald  J. Trump Before Inauguration | Smithsonian Institution

12 posted on 04/06/2025 5:52:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

She had no problem making with these two look good, did she? [from her Facebook page]


13 posted on 04/06/2025 5:52:18 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: NFHale

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.


14 posted on 04/06/2025 5:53:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: simpson96

I feel bad for her but it looks like he has a cancerous growth on the right side of his chin.


15 posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:10 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: madison10

Is that Jon Voight?


16 posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:14 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I rather like that one. Why do you think it’s the ‘worst’?


17 posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:25 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: simpson96

These are very good.


18 posted on 04/06/2025 5:56:58 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: simpson96

Who is that in the top one and why is Bathhouse Barry’s head warped?


19 posted on 04/06/2025 5:57:56 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: simpson96

Looks more like a self portrait!


20 posted on 04/06/2025 5:58:15 PM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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