Electric Chairs by Andy Warhol - Andy Warhol began depicting electric chairs in 1963, the same year as the two final executions in New York State. Over the next decade, Warhol repeatedly returned to the subject, reflecting the political controversy surrounding the death penalty in America in the 1960s. The electric chair, and its brutal reduction of life to nothingness, is given a typically deadpan presentation by Andy Warhol. These images by Warhol of unoccupied electric chairs in an empty execution chamber became poignant metaphors for death.