title: Neurology in the art museum: Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Pascuzzi
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Brooks
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000266:history