Pop artist, filmmaker, and iconic celebrity, Andy Warhol revolutionized American art in the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol began creating prints and paintings of celebrities, everyday objects, and images from mass visual culture. He was particularly preoccupied with reporting on death and violence, from car crashes to executions. Electric Chair is from a print portfolio in which Warhol explored capital punishment by repeating a press image of an electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York using different color combinations. The portfolio of images was created using screenprint, the very medium of commercial-image production.