Tom Wesselmann: The Great American Nude Michael Heizer The exhibition was organized during

The exhibition was organized during the centennial of Rauschenberg’s birth and accompanied an exhibition of works by Marcel Duchamp that inaugurated the gallery’s new ground-floor space

a major exhibition of painting and sculpture by the artist

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chief among them her enduring fascination with the visceral qualities of the body

a detailed chronology by Susan Davidson and Joan Young

Tom Wesselmann: The Great American Nude Michael Heizer The exhibition was organized duringTom Wesselmann: The Great American Nude is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the artists most significant body of work. Made during the ascendancy of Pop art, the Great American Nudes (196173) combine sensual depictions of the female figure with references to art history and popular culture. In these large scale, sometimes multimedia paintings, Wesselmann developed an iconography that is distinctly contemporary and overtly American, with