Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

3,500 Courtroom Sketches by Marilyn Church Heading for Library of Congress

October 14, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Artists & People, Featured

NEW YORK (AP).- Marilyn Church didn’t even have to ask Bernard Madoff, Martha Stewart, Woody Allen and John Gotti to sit for their portraits. She simply found a good seat in court and pulled out her pad — then got paid. Soon, the New York courtroom artist’s 3,500 sketches could be heading to the Library of Congress, which said Wednesday that it planned to acquire them and is finalizing agreements with Church. “It’s a great spectrum of all the things [...]