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Bookmark or Share- An In-Depth Look at 'Christina's World' by Andrew Wyeth - ThoughtCoJack Sotomayor / Getty Images. Anna Christina Olson (1893 to 1968) was a lifelong resident of Cushing, Maine, and the farm where she lived is pictured in "Christina's World." She had a degenerative muscular disorder that took away her ability to walk by the late 1920s. Eschewing a wheelchair, she crawled around the house and grounds.
- Wyeth’s Cast of Characters: Christina Olson - SAMBlogPhotos by Natali Wiseman. Christina Olson was a muse for Andrew Wyeth that helped launch his career. As a subject she is forever seated due to the degenerative disease that made her a paraplegic, but in Wyeth's paintings, the figure of Christina stands out, singular and strong in the stories of Wyeth's characters.
- Andrew Wyeth. Christina's World. 1948 | MoMAWyeth’s neighbor Anna Christina Olson inspired the composition, which is one of four paintings by Wyeth in which she appears. As a young girl, Olson developed a degenerative muscle condition—possibly polio—that left her unable to walk.
- Christina's World - WikipediaChristina'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 semi-reclining on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon; a barn and various other small ...
- Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World: A Closer Look - TheCollectorHowever, Wyeth’s favorite subject was Christina Olson. Anna Christina Olson, born on May 3, 1893, suffered from Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT) disease, which causes weakness in the feet and lower leg muscles. CMT disrupts the movement and coordination of the fingers, hands, wrists, and tongue.
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