The author of the famous painting of Christina, a crippled woman who dragged herself across her property rather than use a wheelchair, has died. Andrew Wyeth was loved by 19th century realists and pretty much deplored by artists and critics who lived at the same time that Wyeth lived but long after the style in which he painted.
Members of the Wyeth family, many of whom cashed in on Andrew's infamy were out painting a figure crawling across their field when they realized it was Andrew. Before the family of painters could remove their smocks and berets their patriarch had expired amid the high grasses.
Wyeth and all of his paintings will be placed in a time capsule and sent back to the Victorian era.
