Andrew Wyeth's Striking Painting "Christina's World" Research

 

Christina's World was painted by an American painter called Andrew Wyeth in 1948 and it was a strike at paintings around the middle of the 20th century. From my research, the painter was inspired by Anna Christina Olson, when he saw her picking berries and crawling across the field from his house. The woman was suffering from the Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, also known as atrophy, is an inherited peripheral neuropathy that causes muscles in the legs, hands, and feet to weaken, reducing movement loss of feeling. The usual on-set age ranges from childhood to early adulthood. To add, Wyeth did several drawings based on Olson too like "Christina Olson", "Miss Olson" and "Anna Christina", as she was his recurring muse and model. After her death

Today, the farmland is still existed and is opened to the public, also marked as the National Historic Landmark.

      

                      the original look of the painting

                                                                                           the tribute photograph by photographer Alex                                                                                   Thompson, taken in 2005