{"data":{"id":"7338","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":7338,"topgoose_id":1016,"portfolio_id":5415,"tms_id":7338,"title":"Electric Chair","display_artist_text":"Andy Warhol","display_date":"1971","accession_number":"73.92.6","dimensions":"Sheet: 35 7/16 × 47 7/8 in. (90 × 121.6 cm)","medium":"Screenprint","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Gift of Peter M. Brant","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":5415,"portfolio":"Electric Chair","edition":"192/250 | 50 APs [Roman numerals]","publication_info":"Printed by Silkprint Kettner; published by Bruno Bischofberger","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndy Warhol, \u003cem\u003eElectric Chair\u003c/em\u003e, 1971. Screenprint, sheet: 35 7/16 × 47 7/8 in. (90 × 121.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Peter M. Brant 73.92.6. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eThis set of ten color screenprints, which are intended to be exhibited as a group, addresses a subject to which Andy Warhol returned several times over the course of a decade. In 1963, perhaps prompted by New York state’s decision to cease using the electric chair to execute prisoners, Warhol began using an image of the chair in his \u003ci\u003eDisaster\u003c/i\u003e series, a body of work focused on startlingly political and gruesome content. To create these works, Warhol appropriated newspaper and police report photographs of race riots and car crashes, among other subjects. In the \u003ci\u003eElectric Chair\u003c/i\u003e prints, the liveliness of Warhol’s secondary palette—acid green, lavender, teal—seems to contravene the pathos of the image, while other aspects of his technique reinforce it. The silkscreen process imbues the prints with breaks and irregularities, passages of murkiness, and areas of glare—all perhaps metaphors for the sense of absence, loss, and disillusionment underlying the image of the electric chair.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"An empty electric chair sits alone in a dim, empty room.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:32:11.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:20.826-05:00","images":[{"id":98719,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/7338/73_92_6_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"1384","type":"artist"}]}}}}