Cagney
1963
Screenprint on paper
A man in a suit holds two handguns, looking to his left with a tense expression. A shadow of a person holding a rifle is cast on the wall to his left. A man in a suit holds two handguns, looking to his left with a tense expression. A shadow of a person holding a rifle is cast on the wall to his left. For this screenprint of 1963, Andy Warhol repurposes a promotional photograph for the 1938 film Angels with Dirty Faces, featuring the legendary Hollywood actor James Cagney in the role of notorious gangster William "Rocky" Sullivan, whose litany of crimes included robbery, racketeering, and murder. A "hero figure" to young neighborhood ruffians, Sullivan is eventually arrested for his crimes after a dramatic police standoff and meets his fate in the electric chair
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