# @guyhepner on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-30T17:20:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Guy Hepner (@guyhepner) — https://gondola.cc/guyhepner

## Caption

With the Death and Disaster series, Warhol explored the mass media’s exploitation of tragic imagery in post-war America. Warhol refers to this phenomenon directly with the “Little Electric Chairs,” a series whose source was a news wire service image from January 13, 1953, announcing the historic death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in upstate New York. Warhol began producing Electric Chairs paintings in 1963—the same year that capital punishment was banned in the state, and the chair carried out New York’s final execution.

Produced between 1964 and 1965, all of the works in the series are identical in size and subject matter, though each silkscreen is unique in its color and ink saturation. The exhibition at Venus paid homage to the inaugural presentation of the works that took place at the Jerrold Morris International Gallery in Toronto in March of 1965.

Installation images courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (ARS), New York.

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littleelectricchairs, andywarholart, andywarhol, warhol, silkscreen, andywarholfoundation, venusovermanhattan, deathanddisasterseries

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