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His most familiar painting, ''Christina's World,''<ref>[http://12.172.4.131/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6464&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1 Christina's World], online image at Museum of Modern Art website; [http://jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Andrew_Wyeth/Christinas_World.htm Christina's World], image at John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery</ref> painted in 1948, shows his neighbor, Christina Olson, and her house in Cushing, Maine. Olson had invited Wyeth to use an upstairs room as a studio, which he did for thirty years.<ref>[http://architecture.about.com/cs/housetours/a/wyeth.htm Christina's World - The House Andrew Wyeth Painted].</ref>

His most familiar painting, ''Christina's World,''<ref>[http://12.172.4.131/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6464&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1 Christina's World], online image at Museum of Modern Art website; [http://jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Andrew_Wyeth/Christinas_World.htm Christina's World], image at John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery</ref> painted in 1948, shows his neighbor, Christina Olson, and her house in Cushing, Maine. Olson had invited Wyeth to use an upstairs room as a studio, which he did for thirty years.<ref>[http://architecture.about.com/cs/housetours/a/wyeth.htm Christina's World - The House Andrew Wyeth Painted].</ref>

Wyeth's paintings are done in egg tempera.

Wyeth works mainly in [[egg tempera]] (the medium used in ''Christina's World'') and watercolor.

Wyeth rose to fame with his realistic paintings during the very heyday of [[abstract expressionism]]. By the 1960s he was extraordinarily successful, appeared on the cover of ''Time Magazine,'' and ''Life'' called him "America's pre-imminent artist."<ref>[http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa433.htm Andrew Wyeth and Bob Timberlake], Fayetteville Museum of Art.</ref> He has drawn his share of sniping; a sour piece in the Colorado Springs Independent talks of the Wyeth family's work "leaden schlock," and reluctantly acknowledging Andrew Wyeth as a "fine artist" only to complain that he "camouflages the emptiness of his work with an understated virtuosity."<ref>[http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2002-04-25/artbreak.html An Impotent Dynasty]: Wyeth family's leaden schlock on display at the Fine Arts Center; John Hazlehurst, Colorado Springs Independent, 2002</ref>

Wyeth rose to fame with his realistic paintings during the very heyday of [[abstract expressionism]]. By the 1960s he was extraordinarily successful, appeared on the cover of ''Time Magazine,'' and ''Life'' called him "America's pre-imminent artist."<ref>[http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa433.htm Andrew Wyeth and Bob Timberlake], Fayetteville Museum of Art.</ref> He has drawn his share of sniping; a sour piece in the Colorado Springs Independent talks of the Wyeth family's work "leaden schlock," and reluctantly acknowledging Andrew Wyeth as a "fine artist" only to complain that he "camouflages the emptiness of his work with an understated virtuosity."<ref>[http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2002-04-25/artbreak.html An Impotent Dynasty]: Wyeth family's leaden schlock on display at the Fine Arts Center; John Hazlehurst, Colorado Springs Independent, 2002</ref>