Massachusetts museum displays Jack Kevorkian’s paintings

PanARMENIAN.Net - 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.

According to AP, 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, June 3. 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.