NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Jane Rosenberg got her start as a courtroom sketch artist drawing prostitutes in New York's night court in 1980.
Forty-three years later, Rosenberg's newest subject was former President Donald Trump, whose arraignment in Manhattan on Tuesday on 34 charges of falsifying business records provided her the opportunity to draw two viral sketches of the defendant.
Rosenberg came up as an artist in the late 1970s when abstractionism was the norm, rather than the realism portrayed in her courtroom work.She eventually found herself working as a portrait artist in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the late 1970s, though she was looking for a more stable way to earn money as an artist.
"I went home and watched it on my tiny black and white TV, called my parents and said, 'I'm on TV'," Rosenberg said. According to court documents, prosecutors alleged Trump engaged in a"scheme" to boost his chances during the 2016 presidential election through a series of hush money payments made by others and repeated falsification of New York business records to cover up that alleged criminal conduct. Trump, who has denied all wrongdoing, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment to all 34 felony counts.
As she got settled, she began work on her first sketch using pastels - painting the foreground of the sketch prior to Trump entering the courtroom. Expecting a brief court appearance, she got to work quickly.But as the hearing continued longer than expected, she decided to do a second sketch – the one that eventually would make it to the cover of The New Yorker.
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