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 farmhouse was made famous in Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World," which depicts Christina Olson dragging herself across a field toward the house, where she lived with her brother for ...

Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting Christina's World is the spur for Christina Baker Kline's richly somber new novel, A Piece of the World (William Morrow, 304 pp., *** out of four stars), which ...

Who is the woman in Andrew Wyeth's striking painting Christina’s World, and why is she sprawled in a field, looking longingly toward a far-off farmhouse? For decades, these questions have drawn ...

CUSHING, Maine — Andrew Wyeth’s famous painting “Christina’s World” shows a crippled woman dragging herself across a field toward a farmhouse. A tour of the house, which was declared a ...

Ann Temkin is a curator for New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, where the painting is displayed. She said the air of mystery about “Christina’s World” draws a lot of visitors. “And as you can guess, ...

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 glancing out the window of his ...

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 ...

“Christina’s World” is one of the most recognizable American paintings of the 20th century. It’s set in the coastal landscape of Maine. Artist Andrew Wyeth and his subject Christina still ...