Wesselmann began to include still life elements in his 1960's series of Great American Nudes, in which he attached both two-dimensional reproductions of objects and later collaged actual objects to his canvases. "Begun in the late 1970's, a series of huge still-life paintings and three-dimensional sculptures are based on shoes, flowers, jewelry, food, and cigarettes--everyday objects. He uses metamorphosis to take the mundane objects to monumental, almost abstract, form." (L. Cathcart, American Still Life: 1945-1983, Houston 1983, p. 21)