Tom Wesselmann’s Study for Nude Silkscreen provides intimate insight into a recurring subject in the artist’s body of work, the female nude. Despite its title, the final work was, in fact, an aquatint print. Bold primary colors dominate the surface of the sheet, establishing Wesselmann’s characteristic graphic visual lexicon. A nude female figure reclines in the center of the scene and offers full display of her sex traits, while the unidentifiable generic shapes that surround her attract further attention to her figure. Wesselmann isolated specific segments of the nude’s reclined body through the implementation of vivid colors and simplification of form, thus emphasizing her explicit sensuality. Similarly, the figure’s lack of facial features creates a sense of mystery that heightens the work’s sexual charge. Study for Nude Silkscreen exemplifies Wesselmann’s capacity to distill a distinctly contemporary approach to an iconic subject within the art historical canon.