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

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 that were going on in our culture and having a front row seat on that,” Church, in her 60s, said in a telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. Church has done sketches for various news organizations over the years, beginning as a freelancer for WABC-TV in 1973 and later including the AP and The New York

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