The artist Amy Sherald has canceled a major exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing censorship over one of her paintings depicting the Statue of Liberty modeled after a transgender artist.

Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition.

Artist Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” would have been the first solo show by a contemporary Black artist at the National