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A Chicago artist is drawing crowds to his bar after painting a portrait of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the buff.

Bruce Elliott unveiled the 4-foot-tall portrait at the Old Town Ale House on Chicago’s North Side last Thursday, the Windy Citizen reports. The governor is wearing her trademark hairdo, holding an automatic rifle and standing naked on a polar-bear skin rug.

“I don’t see how she could be offended by this,” Elliott told the Windy Citizen. “I made her into a sex figure.”

The bar is well known locally for its portraits of bar regulars and Chicagoans, the Windy Citizen said. But the naked Palin portrait has been “very successful” for the bar owner, who admits to the Citizen that he’s a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama.

Sarah Palin Nude Painting

Elliott told the news service that his daughter Grace posed nude for the portrait.

“My daughter is a heck of a stand-in for Sarah Palin,” he said. “She can even do the voice.”

It’s not the first time a female politician has been rendered in the nude. In 2006, sculptor Daniel Edwards created a bust of Sen. Hillary Clinton. A nude study used for the piece was featured in a short film on YouTube entitled “Hillary’s Bust.”