Neurology in the art museum: Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World.
Andrew Wyeth's painting of his friend and neighbor Christina Olson, Christina's World, arguably the best known picture by a living American painter, depicts a woman crawling across a field while gazing toward her house. Christina Olson had a lifelong slowly progressive paralytic disorder. Reflections on her life, clinical symptoms, medical evaluation, and her influence on Mr. Wyeth are presented herein.
Pascuzzi
R M
RM
Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, USA.
Brooks
J O
JO
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