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 ...

The iconic American artist's connection to Kuerner Farm, the subject of a traveling show in North Carolina, was haunted by death.

Andrew Wyeth ... individuals familiar to those who know Wyeth's work: the indomitable, crippled Maine woman, Christina Olson, heroine of Christina's World; the artist's close friend, alcoholic ...

It includes paintings and illustrations by Andrew Wyeth ... famously has ties to Maine. Andrew Wyeth painted his 1948 masterpiece “Christina’s World” in nearby Cushing.

In fact, he never even met her—she died decades earlier. Instead, she was the subject of the painting Christina’s World, created by American realist painter Andrew Wyeth in 1948. Patterson made his ...

Andrew Wyeth. Fascinated by his iconic painting Christina's World, Palin goes in search of the real life stories that inspired this and Wyeth's other depictions of the American landscape and its ...