- **The Metropolitan Museum of Art** has countless nude wor…

- **The Metropolitan Museum of Art** has countless nude works — from ancient Greek sculpture to Thomas Eakins' realist paintings (he was famously obsessed with the nude figure)
- **Thomas Eakins' *The Swimming Hole* (1885)** — male nudity, hanging in the Amon Carter Museum
- **Abbott Handerson Thayer** and many American academic painters of the 19th century regularly painted classical nudes
- **John Singer Sargent** pushed boundaries with works like *Madame X*
- **Georgia O'Keeffe's** work, while abstract, carried strong sensual/bodily themes
- **The Ashcan School** (early 20th century) depicted raw, unidealized human figures
- **Philip Pearlstein** built his entire career on unflinching nude figure painting in the latter 20th century