Christina's World

Andrew Wyeth · 1948

This is Christina's World, painted by Andrew Wyeth in nineteen forty-eight. Christina Olson was his neighbour in Maine and refused a wheelchair all her life. The field is painted from her height, as she pulls herself home across it.

Medium Tempera on panel · Dimensions 32 1/4 x 47 3/4" (81.9 x 121.3 cm) · Credit Purchase

Hanging beside it in Gallery 521: In the Spring, House by the Railroad

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Gold Marilyn Monroe