The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Supine Woman, Robert Thiebaud, 1963
Thiebaud is best known for his delectably dead pan and richly painted pictures of layer cakes and other diner edibles. But he has frequently applied his thickly loaded brush to the human figure, offering it in as straightforward a fashion as he can. This is a woman at the end of the long tradition of the lounging female nude displayed across her couch. Here she simply offers herself for the most fundamental inspection.

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