Can someone help me find the artist and name of a painting I'm looking for?

Question

There is a woman sitting in a red or orange dress in the middle of a large field...I think her hair is blowing in the wind and she looks as if she could have just fallen...in any case it does not seem as if she's simply relaxing...In the distance is a house. You cannot see the woman's face or features...only her back profile and her hair. She's a brunette...There might be flowers in the field the same color as her dress...I barely remember but I'd like to find it again...any ideas?

Answer 1

WYETH, Andrew
Christina's World
1948
Tempera
32 1/4 x 47 3/4 in.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The picture can be seen at the following websites:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/wyeth/christinas_world.jpg.html

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78455

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Christina's World is the most famous work by American painter Andrew Wyeth, and one of the best-known American paintings of the 20th century. Painted in 1948, this tempera work is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It shows a woman named Christina Olson, who had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration that paralyzed her lower body, perhaps poliomyelitis, dragging herself across the ground to pick flowers from her garden. She is the subject of a number of other paintings by Wyeth, along with her brother.

The house in Cushing, Maine, where Wyeth had been staying when he saw the scene that inspired the painting, still stands, although Wyeth took artistic license in its depiction, separating the barn from the house and changing the lay of the land. Known as the Olson house, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Answer 2

Your description sounds like the tempera painting by the twentieth century American artist Andrew Wyeth. It is titled CHRISTINA'S WORLD,

Answer 3

i saw that picture as a child and it stuck in my head
i guess it is the kind of painting where your mind fills in the blanks
i bought a book once of three generations of Wyeth painters
i love the father NC Wyeths style
he illustrated books like treasure island i think
i think his style was very masculine
like Frazettas

Answer 4

I think it might be ANDREW WYETH- CHRISTINA'S WORLD, (although the colors don't match the description exactly