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	Christina's World, 1948
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Andrew Wyeth painted this in 1948. His father, N. C. Wyeth, had been killed at a railway crossing just three years earlier, and Andrew's work underwent a significant change after the loss. His palette became muted, his landscapes barren and his figures--if present--seemed plaintive. Christina's World epitomizes these traits, and conveys the impression that it is an outward expression of Wyeth's inner grief. Inspiration Anna Christina Olson (1893-1968) was a lifelong resident of the Cushing, Maine farm pictured in Christina's World. She had a degenerative muscular disorder (undiagnosed, but sometimes identified as polio) that took away her ability to walk by the late 1920s. Eschewing a wheelchair, she crawled around the house and grounds. Wyeth, who had summered in Maine for many years, met the spinster Olson and her bachelor brother, Alvaro, in 1939. The three were introduced by Wyeth's future wife, Betsy James (b. 1922), another long-term summer resident. It's hard to say what fired the young artist's imagination more: the Olson siblings or their residence. Models We have three here, actually. The figure's wasted limbs and pink dress belong to Christina Olson. The youthful head and torso, however, belong to Betsy Wyeth who was then in her mid-20s (as opposed to Christina's then-mid-50s). The most famous "model" in this scene is the Olson farmhouse itself, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995. Technique The composition is perfectly asymmetrically balanced, though parts of the farmhouse were rearranged by artistic license to accomplish this feat. Wyeth painted in egg tempera, a medium that requires the artist to mix (and constantly monitor) his own paints, but allows for great control. Notice the incredible detail here, where individual hairs and blades of grass are painstakingly highlighted. Critical Reception Christina's World was met with little critical notice after its completion, mainly because (1) the Abstract Expressionists were making most of the arts news and (2) the founding director of MoMA, Alfred Barr, snapped it up almost immediately for $1,800. The few art critics who commented at the time were lukewarm at best. 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. Writers, filmmakers and other visual artists reference it, and the public has always loved it. 45 years ago you'd have been hard-pressed to find a single Pollock reproduction within 20 square city blocks, but everyone knew at least one person who had a copy of Christina's World hanging somewhere on a wall.

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Helga Pictures (Helga Testorf)

Helga Testorf, neighbor to Andrew Wyeth, sat for over 240 works produced by the noted American Artist. These works span fourteen years beginning in 1971. The changing seasons, and the changes in Helga, were all captured in the famous Helga Pictures. Helga was a German immigrant to Pennsylvania. Her family worked for Wyeth's neighbor Karl Kuener.

Wyeth told no one of these works during their creation. It wasn't really public until 1986 via a Time magazine feature. The artist was impressed with the stamina of his subject. His autobiography declares "Helga poses non-stop. I'd get tried but she'd say, 'Hey I'm not at all tired. Keep going!" Source

Christina's World

A tribute to a courageous woman, as well as the unspoiled beauty of her surroundings, “Christina’s World” is Andrew Wyeth’s most famous painting. A representational watercolorist whose neutral-toned, nuanced work depicted rural America’s rustic beauty, Wyeth painted “Christina’s World” in homage to his neighbor, Christina Olson, who was dragging herself toward her house despite crippling polio. Wyeth (1917-2009), moved by her determination, painted her and her house in numerous works.

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Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. His parents home-schooled him in every subject including art education.

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Chester County Farm

Newell Convers Wyeth (Andrew's father) was a well known illustrator whose art was featured in many magazines, calendars, posters and murals. He even painted maps for the National Geographic Society!

Painting Style

Andrew had a vivid memory and fantastic imagination that led to a great fascination for art. His father recognized an obvious raw talent that had to be nurtured. While his father was teaching him the basics of traditional academic drawing Andrew began painting watercolour studies of the rocky coast and the sea in Port Clyde Maine.

He worked primarily in watercolours and egg tempera and often used shades of brown and grey. He held his first one-man show of watercolours painted around the family's summer home at Port Clyde, Maine in 1937. It was a great success that would lead to plenty more.

Successes

He married at the age of twenty-two to a local girl named Betsey James and had two boys, Nicholas who became an art dealer, and James who became the third generation artist in his family. Interestingly, although James' father was the most popular artist in his family history, he was greatly inspired by his grandfather's illustrations.

He was featured on the cover of American Artist as well as many other famous magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post that displayed his painting "The Hunter." His first solo museum exhibition was presented in 1951 at the Farnsworth Art Museum. Since then he has seen many more successes and is considered one of the most "collectable" living artist's of our time.

Andrew Wyeth Quotes

"With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature." - Andrew Wyeth

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