Why is Christina's World painting by Andrew Wyeth so famous?

Art. The Controversial Story behind Andrew Wyeth's Most Famous Painting. By Zachary Small. Aug 31, 2017 5:08 pm. Photographer Alex Thompson's tribute to Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World (1948), taken ... As a result, Olson was handicapped from the waist down; she often moved across her family property by crawling. read more

Christina's World was one of several paintings Wyeth did of Olson. She was a recurring muse and model for Wyeth, captured in paintings like Miss Olson, Christina Olson, and Anna Christina. 6. Christina's World was met with little fanfare. Wyeth’s timing wasn’t quite right. read more

During the ensuing six decades, the painting has become a MoMA highlight and is very rarely loaned. The last exception was to an Andrew Wyeth memorial show at the Brandywine River Museum in his native town of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. More telling is how large a part Christina's World plays in popular culture. read more

Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth, and one of the best-known American paintings of the middle 20th century. It depicts a woman lying 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 are adjacent to the house. read more