Which pop artist created the 1962 painting 'Still Life #30'?
Answer
Tom Wesselmann
Answer
Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann created the painting Still Life #30.
Wesselmann was an American artist associated with Pop Art, though he disliked being confined to that label. His still lifes transformed familiar consumer imagery—food, packaging, household objects and advertisements—into large, brightly colored assemblages that sit between painting and collage.
Still Life #30 includes printed advertisements, plastic flowers, replica 7-Up bottles, a refrigerator door, a framed color image and a city view. The work’s deliberately crowded arrangement turns ordinary commercial objects into a playful study of color, texture and visual competition.
The date in the question is worth checking: the Museum of Modern Art dates this particular work to April 1963, not 1962. That dating issue does not change the artist answer. Wesselmann’s early-1960s still-life series is sometimes confused with the work of Andy Warhol or Claes Oldenburg, but the combination of painted surfaces and dimensional domestic objects is characteristic of Wesselmann.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026