Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting “Christina’s World” shows the reality of life for his longtime friend, a woman with a disability, on her farm in coastal Maine. Christina Olson spent her life ...

The painting was inspired by Christina Olson, who lived near Wyeth's summer home in Maine. Later he told me he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he ...

This July 7, 2011 photo shows the Olson House, which was declared a National Historic Landmark June 30, in Cushing, Maine. The farmhouse was made famous in Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World," ...

The Farnsworth was the last museum to borrow the painting. It was part of the exhibition “Christina Olson: Her World” on view in Rockland in fall 2000. The Farnsworth also manages the Olson ...

called ”Christina Olson.” In it she sits on the stoop, resting. The next year, 1948, Wyeth finished ”Christina`s World.” The painting came about almost by accident, the result of Wyeth`s ...

The 31-year-old Wyeth modeled the painting’s frail-looking brunette after his neighbor in South Cushing, Maine. Anna ...

Even seven decades after Andrew Wyeth finished his most famous painting, “Christina’s World,” the fascination with both his muse, Christina Olson, and the house where she lived, has hardly ...

His most famous painting, Christina’s World ... The most famous of these [subjects] is a woman named Christina Olson. He has painted eight temperas of her or her house, a decrepit three-story ...

The original “Christina’s World” painting is owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, but visiting the Olson House and the Farnsworth Art Museum allows you to stand in the artist ...

Kline’s novel primarily follows the life of Christina Olson, the subject of Wyeth’s painting. The author draws from historical facts and imagination to paint a portrait, no pun intended ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It ranks as one of the most iconic paintings in modern American history: Andrew Wyeth's ...

The sight of Olson picking blueberries while crawling through her fields “like a crab on a New England shore,” as Wyeth put it, inspired the artist to paint Christina’s World. “ ...