Each founding figure of Pop Art seems to have their own story about the origins of the term, and Peter Blake’s takes place at a dinner party thrown by British art critic Lawrence Alloway. Blake was explaining his desire to create paintings with the same cultural resonance and mass appeal as Elvis. “Ah,” Alloway responded, “a kind of pop art.” Rauschenberg and Johns were inspiring parallel epiphanies in New York and London – Blake’s sculptures based on Captain Webb matchboxes actually preceded Warhol’s similar work with iconic Campbell’s Soup and Brillo boxes.