Portrait of Hillary Clinton Set Off Security Dogs At A Florida Art Exhibit

Who let the dogs out?

A painting of Hillary Clinton set off security dogs at a Florida art exhibit and caused Miami police officers to briefly shut down the area to investigate the possible threat.

Two security dogs reacted to a suspicious crate shortly after 8 a.m during a preview-show check at the Art Miami exhibit, according to fair director Nick Korniloff. Both the Art Miami tent and a tent for Context, connected by a tunnel, were closed off. The package was searched and a painting of Clinton with pink hair and a studded jacket was found inside, the Miami Herald reported.

Police officers ran the 16 inch by 20-inch acrylic-on-wood artwork through an X-ray machine, which turned up no suspicious material.

"We had to err on the side of caution," Korniloff said. But, both tents eventually re-opened around 10 a.m.

The painting titled "Punk Hillary" had been shipped with a similar portrait of President Donald Trump called "Trump Pimp," where the U.S president is pictured sporting a zebra-printed hat with a gold dollar-sign chain around his neck. The Trump portrait had already been removed from the crate before the security check.

Both works of art are a part of a series done by Orlando based artist Scott Scheidly. The portraits were listed at $4,000 and sold to a single collector. Scheidly has painted roughly 50 satirical portraits of politicians and pop culture figures, including Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, and Queen Elizabeth II.

After the delay Saturday morning, both paintings were hung side-by-side in the Context tent, in a booth for a gallery called Spoke Art based in both New York and San Francisco. Police were still unsure Saturday morning what about the art had caused the dogs to react.

"They have no idea," gallery owner Ken Hashimoto told Miami Herald. "My thought is a Republican bomb dog."