ID: 700000315 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000315	Record Type: Movable Work
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Red Disaster (painting (visual work); Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987); 1963, 1985; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 1986.161a-b)

Note: In 1962 Warhol began reproducing newspaper images in a series of paintings he called Death and Disasters. The images include car wrecks, plane crashes, and, as here, an electric chair. But the series is not about violence so much as the power of the media and the way that, as Warhol said, “when you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it really doesn’t have any effect.”

Titles:

Red Disaster (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

serigraphs [300178688]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, stencil prints)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1963, 1985

Creator Display:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) [preferred,VP]

painter Warhol, Andy (American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987) Extent: execution [500006031]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1986.161a-b

Credit Line: Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund

Other: Creation: New York [7007567] New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas

	screen printing [300053281]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing (process))

	polymer paint [300015055]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, synthetic resin paint)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Two panels, each 236.2 x 203.8 cm (93 x 80 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Pop (fine arts styles) [300022205] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, <international post-1945 styles and movements>, <post-1945 fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:

machines and equipment (preferred,description)

utilitarian objects (description)

Specific Subjects:

	electric chair [300391486]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings (hierarchy name), furnishings (works), <furnishings by form or function>, furniture, <furniture by form or function>, seating furniture, single seating furniture, chairs (furniture forms), <chairs by function>) (AAT)

	death [300151836]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events) (AAT)

	disaster [300182939]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities)) (AAT)

Copyright: © 2011 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Provenance: Andy Warhol Studio, New York; to MFA, Boston, 1986

Inscriptions: Written in Warhol's own hand, upside down across the top of the reverse side of the painting: 1963 Andy Warhol 1963 Andy Warhol

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Red Disaster	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... MFA Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online (2005-) accessed 3 March 2018