Jack Kevorkian art work displayed in Mass. museum
By Associated Press
Friday, June 3, 2011
WATERTOWN – Jack Kevorkian was famous for advocating
physician-assisted suicide, but the doctor also was an artist,
composer and writer whose works are displayed in a Massachusetts
museum celebrating Armenian culture.
Four of his paintings are on display at the Armenian Library and
Museum of America in Watertown with about a dozen more in storage.
Curator Gary Lind-Sinanian says the museum also has a collection of
his compositions and writings.
Kevorkian died in Michigan on Friday. He was 83.
Many of Kevorkian’s works deal with dying. Lind-Sinanian says “Nearer
my God to Thee,” which depicts a human clawing the walls as he’s
dragged to his death, represents Americans’ fear of death.
Lind-Sinanian says the museum has already seen a surge in e-mail
requests for signed posters of Kevorkian’s art.
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