Tag: John Paonessa

• Andy Warhol, John Paonessa, the Rosenbergs and Sing Sing’s notorious death house.

  

  So, what links the icon of pop art, the atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and an almost-forgotten murderer named John Paonessa? Simple, the electric chair. Warhol used this image to create a series of coloured screenprints. Part of his recurring fascination with life’s dark side, Old Sparky was as famous as Warhol long before…

  CrimeScribe

  March 1, 2023

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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