Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth - ArtPaintingArtist.
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 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 outbuildings are adjacent to the house.Betsy, Wyeth's wife who was then fifty-five, also posed a part of the painting model, for she was the torso of Christina. Christina's World was first exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan in 1948. The painting received very little attention from critics, but was quickly bought by Alfred Barr, founder of the Museum of Modern Art.The title Christina’s World, courtesy of Wyeth’s wife, indicates that the painting is more a psychological landscape than a portrait, a portrayal of a state of mind rather than a place. Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019).
In summer the grass might be a close-cut emerald green and a row of pines fringes the horizon, but all the other details are shockingly familiar. This is the scene from Andrew Wyeth's haunting 1948 painting Christina's World.The story behind Christina’s World is part of the Wyeth legend, and wonderfully recounted in the exhibition catalog by Michael K. Komanecky, Chief Curator at the Farnsworth. On Andy’s 22 nd.
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