PHOENIX (AP) – A Connecticut artist plans to exhibit a sculpture of Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams’ severed head at a New York gallery next month.

Daniel Edwards of Moosup, Conn., said the inspiration for the sculpture came to him when it was revealed that the Hall of Famer’s head was removed and cryogenically frozen with his torso at Scottsdale’s Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

The sculpture shows Williams resting his chin on a baseball.

“I think the piece isn’t ghastly,” Edwards said.

The show opening Sept. 6 at the First Street Gallery in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood includes three copies of the sculpture and memorabilia, including a 1954 Life magazine cover of Williams, the last man in baseball to finish a season with a batting average over .400.

Alcor CEO Joe Waynick said it was “unfortunate that anyone feels they have to capitalize on the memory of Ted Williams for monetary gain.

“The Williams family has been through enough,” Waynick said.

Alcor released a statement reiterating the company had nothing to do with Edwards’ art.

Alcor is storing Williams and 68 other “patients” in the hopes that medical science in the future will be so far advanced that they can be revived.