Tom Wesselmann's "Study for Great American Nude" exemplifies his Pop Art approach to the female form through a combination of pencil drawing and Liquitex paint on paper. The work demonstrates Wesselmann's characteristic blend of gestural abstraction and figurative representation, where the nude body becomes a vehicle for exploring color, form, and the intersection of fine art with commercial visual culture. As a preparatory study, this piece reveals the artist's process of synthesizing bold, flattened shapes with more delicate linear work to create compositions that challenged conventional representations of the body in American art.