Now, more than 30 years later, she has sold that painting, the only known nude study by the illustrator of homey America.
Traditionally, an académie was a nude study done by a painter to master the female (or male) form.
His paintings feature nude studies, portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.
These images were very different from his previous nude studies - sharply focused and showing her entire body in relation to the natural setting.
Then you have this large group of nude male studies, which are totally personal.
The various "Torso" and the many nude studies.
After the war, Fukuda published collections of nude studies and more books on photographic technique.
Brennan leaned further into the light and saw that it was a nude study of Chrysalis.
Post war, she drew still lives, landscapes and nude studies.
Despite the show's provocative title, a fair number of the pictures aren't nude studies.