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A show by the artist Isabelle Brourman, who sketched the trials of Donald J. Trump, attracted figures from the art world, the media and some lawyers from his civil fraud trial.
Jan. 10, 2025, 11:44 a.m. ET
It was a bitterly cold January evening the night before President-elect Donald J. Trump was set to be sentenced in a Lower Manhattan courtroom, and an unusual array of figures was gathered in an art gallery in Chinatown that was filled with sketches from his trial.
They were there for the opening of the artist Isabelle Brourman’s show “Paper Trail,” a collection of the works she created when she joined the courtroom sketch artists documenting the political theater surrounding Mr. Trump’s court battles last year in New York.
“Seeing her work is like watching HBO for the first time: You can do that?” said the MSNBC news anchor Lawrence O’Donnell, who stopped by the opening before returning to work that evening in preparation for Mr. Trump’s sentencing. He had interviewed Ms. Brourman last spring about her unique way of drawing the once and future president in a courtroom setting.
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Ms. Brourman, 31, rarely missed a day at Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial, capturing Mr. Trump in a frenetic, highly personal style populated by scribbled testimony and wild hand gestures. In that trial, a judge found Mr. Trump liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and lying about the value of his properties to receive more favorable terms on loans.
She went on to sketch his Manhattan criminal trial, where he was convicted on charges of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his 2016 campaign.
