In 1948, American visual artist and realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, created the painting “Christina’s World,” which became one of the most well-known works of the mid-20th-Century. The painting depicts a woman in a pale pink dress laying semi-reclined, as if crawling, in a barren field. She appears to be gazing towards a grey clapboard house, its barn, and outbuildings. The house in the painting is the Olson House, and aside from the artist’s rearrangement of some outbuildings, looks the same today Wyeth first saw the 14-room coastal farmhouse in Cushing,…
