<ANDREW WYETH CHRISTINA'S WORLD AND THE OLSON HOUSE>: An extraordinary private collection of watercolors and drawings by Andrew Wyeth depicting the subjects memorialized in his legendary painting Christina's World, one of the best-known works of American art. This book presents rarely seen watercolors and drawings Andrew Wyeth made of his friend Christina Olson, her brother Alvaro, and the weathered Maine farmstead where they lived. It features moving portraits and serene interior and exterior views of the house and the surrounding land, now memorialized in Wyeth's 1948 tempera painting Christina's World, one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art and now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Some forty-five works from the collection of the Marunuma Art Park in Japan, rarely shown before in the United States, are accompanied by works from the Farnsworth as well as by historical photographs of Wyeth, the Olsons, and the house.

A Welcome to the Olson House

Director's Foreword

 Christopher J. Brownawell

Greetings from Marunuma Art Park

 Katsushige Susaki

Guided to Andrew Wyeth's World

 Otoyo Nakamura

Christina, Alvaro and Andy

 Michael K. Komanecky

Archival Photographs of the Olson House

Plates

Alvaro and Christina

The Olson House

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