Big Electric Chair

Big Electric Chair

Artist	Andy Warhol
Year	1967
Type	Silk screen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Dimensions	137 cm × 185.4 cm (54 in × 73.0 in)

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, 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.