Christina's World

Christina's World
ArtistAndrew Wyeth
Year1948[1]
Catalogue78455
MediumEgg tempera on gessoed panel[1]
Dimensions81.9 cm × 121.3 cm (32+14 in × 47+34 in)[1]
LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York
Accession16.1949

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]