Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth is best known for 'Christina's World' (1948), a painting that rivals Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' (1930) as one of the most popular American paintings of the 20th century. It depicts one Christina Olson, a friend of the artist, who was crippled with polio, gazing at a farmhouse in the distance. It is charged with a sense of loneliness and portentousness that became typical of Wyeth's work.