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Off the Path

Christina's World: The "enigma" and friendship behind a classic American painting

By Davis Dunavin
Published August 4, 2023 at 12:28 PM EDT
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"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth, on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth, on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting “Christina’s World” shows the reality of life for his longtime friend, a woman with a disability, on her farm in coastal Maine.

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Davis Dunavin
Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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