{"id":1720,"date":"2017-02-18T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:58:50","slug":"the-surprising-inspiration-for-andrew-wyeths-christinas-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"The surprising inspiration for Andrew Wyeth&#8217;s Christina&#8217;s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A Piece of the World\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5671958cb204d523496dd378\/t\/585a929b197aeabb8cfda2c8\/1482330790146\/?format=500w\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5671958cb204d523496dd378\/t\/585a929b197aeabb8cfda2c8\/1482330790146\/?format=500w\" alt=\"Jonathan Byrd\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Imagine you&#8217;re a painter. Beyond needing natural talent, hard work, and technique, how do you find a subject? If you&#8217;re Andrew Wyeth, creator of the famous 1948 painting Christina&#8217;s World (below), you get lucky, kind of, in that your subject passes by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Christina Olson&#8217;s] parents were buried in [a nearby]\u00a0graveyard, and she would drag herself down there to see them. And one day, [Wyeth]\u00a0saw her out the window doing that and he was intrigued and inspired to paint her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christinabakerkline.com\/\">Christina Baker Kline<\/a> took that story and a lot of research and wrote her latest novel, <em>A Piece of the World<\/em>. Tune in to hear why this book was harder to write than her bestselling novel <em>Orphan Train<\/em> and what insights she&#8217;ll give when she&#8217;s guest author on Thursday, February 23<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0with the Thurber House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1729\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christinasworld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"wp-image-1729 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christinasworld-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Christinas World\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christinasworld-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christinasworld.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina&#8217;s World<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/object.php?object_id=78455\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/object.php?object_id=78455<\/a>, <a title=\"Fair use\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Christinasworld.jpg\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=8005786\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9859\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1720-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_2017-2-22_Kline.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_2017-2-22_Kline.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_2017-2-22_Kline.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_2017-2-22_Kline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1720-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Craft_2017-2-22_Kline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2017-2-22_Kline.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you&#8217;re a painter. 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If you&#8217;re Andrew Wyeth, creator of the famous 1948 painting Christina&#8217;s World (below), you get lucky, kind of, in that your subject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,74],"tags":[419,422,420,421],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-original-craft-productions","category-thurber-house-author","tag-andrew-wyeth","tag-christina-baker-kline","tag-christinas-world","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}