Christina's world

in a world that despises the weak, Andrew Wyeth commemorated a woman who lived her life despite her weakness. Ah but do you know the story behind the picture?

 

wikipedia:

The woman in the painting is Anna Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 – January 27, 1968). Anna had a degenerative muscular disorder, possibly polio or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, which left her unable to walk.[1] She was firmly against using a wheelchair, so would crawl everywhere. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when he saw her crawling across a field while he was watching from a window in the house