Trump Painting Smithsonian

Interestingly the smithsonian is perfectly fine with hanging any damaging artwork towards donald trump as the painting below was accepted into the smithsonian folk art museum before it was stolen.

Trump painting smithsonian. The smithsonian institute declined to display a recent portrait of president elect donald trump by a new york artist in favor of installing a 1989 portrait of trump from their own collection. For more than two years hes tried to convince the smithsonians national portrait gallery to display the 300 pound painting of trump with no success. May 8 august 28 2019 nov. The surreal story of a trump loving artists war with the smithsonian a new york painter created a sprawling tribute to the president took it on a road show across red state america and became a conservative celeb along the way.

Swamp is far reaching and very deep. The trump paintingportrait unafraid unashamed on show at the center for contemporary political art in washington dc. District court to force the smithsonian to display the trump painting but he tells the daily beast that hes prepared to take his fight to the. The first presidential trump portrait by julian raven painted in 2015 latest smithsonian lawsuit news july 2019 filing of the petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc at the court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit.

Once trump won the election on november 8th 2016 it was time to apply to the smithsonian to show the trump painting at the inauguration on january 20th 2017. Photographer michael obrien snapped the 1989 trump portrait which the smithsonian has had since 2011 along with 4 other trump portraits. 7th 2019 trump portrait free speech lawsuit filed at the us supreme court in washington dc. Since all else failed sajet decided to handle the request with a middle school attitude targeting the artwork as no good.

Then its director turned him away. When a federal officer the director of the smithsonian national portrait gallery the curator of our american pictorial history can go to a hostile anti trump rally and tweet directly to the official smithsonian twitter feed and get away with it you know that the dc. Share tweet email comments. Raven recently lost his case before dcs us.

Smithsonian rejects artists historic trump portrait so hes taking the battle to the supreme court. Random individuals from coast to coast would say that the trump painting needed to be in the smithsonian national portrait gallery. Now after failing to win his case in dcs.