John W. Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) American predator and serial killer known as “The Killer Clown” (because he regularly performed as children’s hospitals and charity events dressed as “Pogo the Clown”) assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978. Twenty-six of his victims were buried in the crawlspace underneath his suburban Chicago home.
He was arrested on December 21, 1978 and sentenced to death on March 13, 1980. On death row, he spend a lot of his time painting for people who wrote and ask him for his artwork, which supplied him with a pit of income while incarcerated. One of his more popular subjects to paint was him dressed as “Pogo the Clown” and he used a 4x6” family photo as a reference for his painting.
As his death sentence drew near, he painted less and less. He signed the photo he used as reference and gave it to a friend that would visit him in prison in the early 1990s. We obtained the photo from her in late 1999 and have scanned and used it numerous times over the years for various things.
This is a copy of that original family photo of Gacy as Pogo The Clown, matted using archival photo paper and acid neutral mat material to an overall 10x12” size for easy display.
Each matted photo also comes with a copy of the original 4x6” photo front as well as the back of the photo, which is signed in Gacy’s hand as both Gacy as well as Pogo the Clown. Framed and hanging on the wall, this photo will make one helluva conversation piece!