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 ...

In the summer of 1948 a young artist named Andrew Wyeth began a painting of a severely crippled woman, Christina Olson, painfully pulling herself up a seemingly endless sloping hillside with her arms.

“Christina’s World,” the best-known painting of Andrew Wyeth, who died Jan. 16, will make a rare trip from its home at the Museum of Modern Art to a celebration of the late artist Saturday ...

Andrew Wyeth, arguably America's best-known living ... crippled Maine woman, Christina Olson, heroine of Christina's World; the artist's close friend, alcoholic Maine fisherman Walt Anderson ...

Andrew Wyeth is one of the most beloved, and most derided, American artists of the 20th century. His 1948 “Christina’s World” is iconic, and he is praised for his skill at egg tempera ...

Visitors to the Olson House have been known to stake out positions as they create simulations of Andrew Wyeth’s signature painting, “Christina’s World.” One woman even brought her own costume.

“Christina’s World,” his absurdly ... In designing his own end, on the very spot where the senior Wyeth had been taken by disaster, Andrew laid himself to rest in a way forever denied ...