Presented here are seven of the pop artist’s seminal canvases, created over a span of two decades. Monumental in scale and ambition, these paintings—including “Still Life #29” (1963) and “Still Life with Blue Jar and Smoking Cigarette” (1981)—exemplify his pictorial innovations and clever recontextualization of the advertising vernacular through chromatic colors, anomalous compositions, and fetishism of everyday objects.

Tom Wesselmann, “Still Life #29” (1963). Art © Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Photo: Jeffrey Sturges. Courtesy the Estate and Gagosian.