Year 1967 Created 1967 | Period Pop art | |
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Type Silk screen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas Dimensions 137 cm × 185.4 cm (54 in × 73.0 in) Andy Warhol artwork Portrait of Seymour H Knox, Suicide (Purple Jumping, Camouflage Self‑Portrait, Men in Her Life, Ethel Scull 36 Times | ||
Andy warhol s technicolor big electric chair
Created in 1967, the Stockholm Big Electric Chair is part of a series of works by Andy Warhol depicting an electric chair. Death by electrocution was a controversial subject in New York City, where the artist lived and worked, especially after the last two executions at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1963. Warhol obtained a photograph of the empty execution chamber, which became the basis for this series.
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