![]() He saw in her face and broken body the indomitable spirit of Maine. Too proud to use a wheelchair, she dragged herself from room to room and across the unkempt yard.Įnthralled by her stubborn dignity, Wyeth painted Christina numerous times. Christina was a gruff country woman whose body was mangled by an undiagnosed illness that left her legs useless. ![]() The house was home to Christina Olson, a descendant of the ship captain and Wyeth’s preeminent muse (think Christina’s World), until her death in 1968. Built by a ship captain in the late 18th century, the house sits at the end of a long road, high on a grassy hill overlooking the estuary of the St. 1 to visit the Olson House, which is now a pilgrimage site for admirers of the painter Andrew Wyeth. ![]() ![]() During a recent vacation in Maine, I detoured off U.S. ![]()
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