Artist of Trump Col­orado por­trait says her career may be over after back­lash

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Artist of Trump Colorado portrait says her career may be over after backlash

The artist of a 2019 por­trait of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump hang­ing in Col­orado‘s state Capi­tol claimed on Sun­day that her career and art busi­ness is “in dan­ger of not recov­er­ing” after Trump accused her of “pur­pose­ful­ly” dis­tort­ing the por­trait and called for its removal.

In a release post­ed on her web­site, Sarah Board­man defend­ed the por­trait, say­ing she com­plet­ed it “accu­rate­ly, with­out ‘pur­pose­ful dis­tor­tion,’ polit­i­cal bias, or any attempt to car­i­ca­ture the sub­ject, actu­al or implied.”

Board­man also said she only “received over­whelm­ing­ly pos­i­tive reviews and feed­back” until Trump strong­ly crit­i­cized it late last month, when he called it “tru­ly the worst” por­trait and that Board­man “must have lost her tal­ent as she got old­er.”

Fol­low­ing those com­ments, the Col­orado-based artist said her busi­ness “has changed for the worst,” adding that Trump’s crit­i­cism is “direct­ly and neg­a­tive­ly impact­ing my busi­ness of over 41 years which now is in dan­ger of not recov­er­ing.”

She con­clud­ed her state­ment by say­ing she would not be com­ment­ing fur­ther.

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Board­man has done oth­er pres­i­den­tial por­traits, includ­ing those of for­mer Pres­i­dents George W. Bush and Barack Oba­ma. Trump pre­vi­ous­ly lament­ed how “won­der­ful” the Oba­ma por­trait was com­pared to his.

Accord­ing to her web­site, she has done five pres­i­den­tial por­traits, one por­trait of a U.S. dis­trict court judge, and many por­traits of U.S. mil­i­tary mem­bers.