And Lyndon B. Johnson called his portrait the "ugliest thing I ever saw." Peter Hurd, a successful artist who painted the work, dismissed the president's "very damn rude" behavior in his comments to ...

“He later opted for another portrait by John Sargent Singer.” Over half a century later, President Lyndon Johnson similarly felt as though he’d been done dirty by a portrait artist. In ...

The White House has hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him ...