Forty-five years ago you would have been hard-pressed to find a single Jackson Pollock reproduction within 20 square city blocks, but everyone knew at least one person who had a copy of "Christina's World" hanging somewhere on a wall. Writers, filmmakers, and other visual artists reference it, and the public has always loved it. More telling is how large a part "Christina's World" plays in popular culture. The last exception was to an Andrew Wyeth memorial show at the Brandywine River Museum in his native town of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The few art critics who commented at the time were lukewarm at best, deriding it as "kitschy nostalgia," wrote Zachary Small.ĭuring the ensuing seven decades, the painting has become a MoMA highlight and is very rarely loaned. The founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Barr, snapped it up almost immediately for $1,800.The abstract expressionists were making most of the art news of the time.There are better Wyeth books out there, but for Wyeth fans, this one is a must have. Of these 33 color plates are watercolors, many of which have not been in books before. "Christina's World" was met with little critical notice after its completion, mainly because: The new Andrew Wyeth book 2011 called 'Andrew Wyeth Christinas World and the Olson House' contains 45 color and 24 black and white plates.
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