{"id":56183,"date":"2025-03-26T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56183"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:05:56","slug":"trumps-colorado-painting-other-presidential-portrait-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/trumps-colorado-painting-other-presidential-portrait-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Colorado Painting &#038; Other Presidential Portrait Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56186\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-Troosevelt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56186\" class=\"wp-image-56186\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-Troosevelt-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of Theodore Roosevelt posing at the base of a stair, placing his hand on the balustrade.\" width=\"190\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-Troosevelt-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-Troosevelt-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-Troosevelt-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-Troosevelt.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Theodore Roosevelt<\/em> by John Singer Sargent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A portrait of Donald Trump hanging at the Colorado State Capitol building has been removed after many people online decided the president\u2019s depiction was amusing and unflattering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Apart from<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> when they <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">are first unveiled<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, presidential portraits don\u2019t often receive much attention in the news. Nowadays, former presidents will usually have multiple portraits done, with the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) commissioning a painting for their American Presidents exhibition. The White House Historical Association also curates their own collection of presidential portraits. While they may seem like rather simple paintings, many <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">of them<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> have fascinating stories revealing different aspects of the subject and the painter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Teddy Roosevelt was a man of action. His official portrait, though static, serves as an example of this. Finding himself unsatisfied with an earlier portrait, Roosevelt hired renowned painter John Singer Sargent. The president and the artist spent <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a good amount of<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> time together, with Sargent following Roosevelt all around the White House, making sketches from every conceivable angle and in every form of light. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, the painter <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">simply<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> could not find a suitable setting or pose for the portrait.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Sensing this, Roosevelt paused to address the artist shortly before ascending a set of stairs, placing his hand on the balustrade. Hit with inspiration, Sargent decided this was exactly what he would paint: a president constantly on the move, taking a brief moment to address the viewer. However, Roosevelt\u2019s rigorous schedule meant that the president could only pose for Sargent for half an hour each day, right after lunch. Roosevelt reportedly liked this painting far better.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bill Clinton<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehousehistory.org\/photos\/william-j-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Clinton\u2019s official White House portrait<\/a> <\/span>by Simmie Knox shows the president in a very dignified pose, standing before the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, the painting commissioned by the NPG is slightly more scandalous. The gallery commissioned the portrait from Nelson Shanks. However, it seems the artist may not have been the president\u2019s biggest supporter because he decided to include a nod to one of the biggest political scandals of the 1990s. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/03\/02\/390196140\/clintons-portrait-has-hint-of-lewinskys-blue-dress-artist-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Shanks portrait<\/a> <\/span>shows the president in the Oval Office\u2019s fireplace with his hands on his hips. It\u2019s far more casual than the Knox portrait, almost like you\u2019ve caught him in the middle of something. However, the president is not in the center of the painting; he is slightly on the right-hand side. The left-hand side would be unremarkable if it weren\u2019t for a noticeable shadow coming across from just outside our view. Shank later said in a 2015 interview that the shadow represents the Monica Lewinsky scandal that plagued Clinton\u2019s presidency during his second term. Shank admitted that he modeled the shadow based on the shadow cast by a mannequin wearing a blue dress, a reference to the infamous dress Lewinsky war that later served as proof of an affair between the president and the White House intern. It is one of the few portraits kept from display at the NPG.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56187\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56187\" class=\"wp-image-56187\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of John F. Kennedy, looking down with his arms crossed.\" width=\"175\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/800px-John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John F. Kennedy by Aaron Shikler<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">John F. Kennedy<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/21\/John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg\/800px-John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The portrait of John F. Kennedy by Aaron Shikler<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is the president\u2019s official White House portrait. Jacqueline Kennedy commissioned the painting in 1970, making it one of the few posthumous presidential portraits. Jackie Kennedy intentionally asked for the picture to stand out among others by not having her late husband look in the direction of the viewer. She admitted that she did not want to see her late husband as he had been shown before, \u201cwith the bags under his eyes and that penetrating gaze. I\u2019m tired of that image\u201d. Instead, Shikler shows Kennedy with his arms crossed, looking downward as if lost in thought or possibly melancholy. The artist stated that he drew inspiration from images of Ted Kennedy at the president\u2019s funeral. Even with Kehinde Wiley\u2019s colorful portrait of Barack Obama, Shikler\u2019s painting remains one of American history\u2019s most distinctive presidential portraits.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The official White House portrait and the NPG-commissioned portrait are often the only paintings worth mentioning in terms of presidential portraits. For Franklin Roosevelt, Frank Salisbury painted <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/29\/Froosevelt.jpeg\/800px-Froosevelt.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the White House portrait<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in 1947. The president\u2019s NPG portrait by Douglas Chandor <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/npg.si.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/class_fdr.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was originally intended<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> as a study<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for a larger group portrait along with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin commemorating the Yalta Conference. However, there is another painting worth mentioning. In April 1945, the president\u2019s longtime mistress, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, reached out to her friend, the portraitist Elizabeth Shoumatoff, to paint the president\u2019s picture while he stayed at his house in Warm Springs, Georgia. Shoumatoff agreed to have the president sit for her over two days starting April 12th. The artist completed Roosevelt\u2019s face and parts of his torso before the president began experiencing headaches. This was the cerebral hemorrhage that later led to Roosevelt\u2019s death at around 3:30pm that same day. Shoumatoff was later involved in a cover-up since the public was unaware of the president\u2019s affair with Rutherfurd. The portraitist intentionally omitted any mention of Rutherfurd when she spoke to members of the press. <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/image-services\/iiif\/service:pnp:highsm:47500:47513\/full\/pct:25\/0\/default.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Shoumatoff\u2019s unfinished portrait<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> now hangs at the house in Warm Springs where it <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was created<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, serving as a retrospectively somber depiction of Roosevelt\u2019s last days. The artist <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was later commissioned<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> as a presidential portraitist a second time when Lyndon Johnson sat for <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/d1y822qhq55g6.cloudfront.net\/default\/_superImage\/Lyndon-B.-Johnson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">his official White House portrait<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Colorado State Capitol building hosts a small gallery of presidential portraits. Unlike the paintings at the NPG, the Colorado Capitol paintings are somewhat uniform, showing bust-length portraits of every American president against a dark, gray-green background. The Colorado legislature unveiled <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/25\/arts\/25cul-trump-portrait-artist\/25cul-trump-portrait-artist-googleFourByThree.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trump\u2019s portrait<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in the summer of 2019. The artist, Sarah Boardman, stated that she intended for the president to appear \u201cthoughtful, non-confrontational, not angry, not happy, not tweeting\u201d. However, nearly six years later, the painting has gained the attention of the president\u2019s critics and the president himself. Many online comments have remarked that the portrait makes the president appear chubby and docile. Trump also complained, claiming that the painting was \u201cpurposefully distorted\u201d. The Colorado state legislature\u2019s executive committee promptly issued a statement calling for the portrait\u2019s removal. Trump initially blamed Colorado\u2019s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, for displaying a seemingly unflattering representation at the capitol. However, curating paintings in the capital building is not part of the governor\u2019s job. Trump has already received a good deal of criticism for his complaints about such a small issue as a painting in a state capitol building. Social media accounts online have called him \u201ca petty, insecure baby\u201d as well as \u201cthe most fragile, sensitive snowflake in history<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A portrait of Donald Trump hanging at the Colorado State Capitol building has been removed after many people online decided the president\u2019s depiction was amusing and unflattering. Apart from when they are first unveiled, presidential portraits don\u2019t often receive much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/trumps-colorado-painting-other-presidential-portrait-stories\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[224,272,72,1267,523,1266,11,9,1268],"class_list":["post-56183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-20th-century-american-art","tag-21st-century-american","tag-american-art","tag-politics","tag-portrait","tag-presidents","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Colorado Painting &amp; Other Presidential Portrait Stories - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Donald Trump portrait at the Colorado State Capitol has been removed. 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