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Elephants We Must Never Forget

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sue Coe, Side-Splitting Fooleries: Edison Tests the Electric Chair on an Elephant, 2007

Side-Splitting Fooleries: Edison Tests the Electric Chair on an Elephant, 2007

Graphite, gouache, and watercolor on white Strathmore Bristol board
40 x 54 1/2 in (101.6 x 138.4 cm)
© Sue Coe
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Robbin Jaffee Frank, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland 1861-2008, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2015, plate 153, p. 180, 181, 182

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