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.”
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Following those comments, the Colorado-based artist said her business “has changed
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