Christina's World | |
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Artist | Andrew Wyeth |
Year | 1948[1] |
Catalogue | 78455 |
Medium | Egg tempera on gessoed panel[1] |
Dimensions | 81.9 cm × 121.3 cm (32+1⁄4 in × 47+3⁄4 in)[1] |
Location | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Accession | 16.1949 |
Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-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.[1] It is held by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.[1]