Artworks by Jack Kevorkian stolen from Connecticut museum

Wednesday, April 25, 2001 | 9:44 a.m.

The prints, featuring cartoonish images of death, were to be the first exhibit at the new Danielson Art Museum. They have an estimated value of $30,000, said museum director Steven Tomeo.

Tomeo said they had been removed by the landlord who was concerned because the prints were not insured and the subject matter could become controversial after publicity about the exhibit.

The exhibit is not yet open, but the prints are being shown privately by appointment.

Tomeo said nobody has complained yet about the works, which include one titled "A Very Still Life," of a skull and a flower.

The prints were reported stolen on Tuesday, the same day an article appeared in The Hartford Courant previewing the show. In it, curator Baird Jones noted that celebrity art shows sometimes incite defacement or theft.

Kevorkian, 72, says he has attended more than 130 suicides. He is serving a 10- to 25-year prison sentence in Michigan for second-degree murder after being convicted in the 1998 death of a terminally ill man whose death he videotaped.

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