Christina's World is a 1948 tempera painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth, depicting a woman in an inclined position on the ground in a treeless, tawny field, looking toward a gray house and outbuildings on the horizon. The composition was inspired by Wyeth's neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who had a degenerative muscular condition limiting her ability to walk, and who is shown at a distance from the home she lived in near Cushing, Maine. Held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it is one of the best known and most reproduced American paintings of the mid-twentieth century.
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Tempera painting by Andrew Wyeth.
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Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century.
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It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an inclined position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings adjacent to the house.
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It is held by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.
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Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an inclined position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings adjacent to the house.
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It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an inclined position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings adjacent to the house.
Created By: Andrew Wyeth, Infobox: artist
Andrew Wyeth
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