09 8 / 2012

’s “Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth I think I was maybe around eleven-years-old the first time I saw a picture of this painting. It is perhaps, the painting that started my love affair with art and art history. I remember later going to a public library and checking out a book about Andrew Wyeth and reading about this painting in particular. As my family and I drove through the mostly desolate and barren landscape of eastern Washington and Idaho, there was a patch of landscape that brought this painting to mind. When I was a young girl I used to think about this painting a lot, and come up with different stories for Christina. I also couldn’t help but love that she had a similar name to mine, the Spanish form of my name, actually. A couple of decades later, this painting still affects me deeply, it still takes my breath away and captures my imagination perhaps more than any piece of art I’ve ever seen. KW

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“Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth

I think I was maybe around eleven-years-old the first time I saw a picture of this painting. It is perhaps, the painting that started my love affair with art and art history. I remember later going to a public library and checking out a book about Andrew Wyeth and reading about this painting in particular.

As my family and I drove through the mostly desolate and barren landscape of eastern Washington and Idaho, there was a patch of landscape that brought this painting to mind.

When I was a young girl I used to think about this painting a lot, and come up with different stories for Christina. I also couldn’t help but love that she had a similar name to mine, the Spanish form of my name, actually.

A couple of decades later, this painting still affects me deeply, it still takes my breath away and captures my imagination perhaps more than any piece of art I’ve ever seen.

KW

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