Born May 3, 1894, Christina Olson and her brother Alvaro lived on their farm in Cushing, ME. She had a degenerative muscular disorder known as Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, but she disliked using crutches and a wheelchair. Andrew Wyeth befriended the siblings and did many paintings of them--especially Christina--and their farm. Although Wyeth used his wife Betsy's body for the figure, he used Christina's head and thin arms as she crawled along the ground, the way she preferred to get around. "Christina's World" (1948) is the most famous of his Olson paintings--perhaps of his entire oeuvre. Here are several photos of Christina and other Wyeth paintings. Andrew and Betsy are buried close to the Olsons in the Cushing cemetery.
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