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kiggenstane t1_je9ur50 wrote

I can’t even imagine how long this took. This looks so sick, and it’s really giving me that strange feeling of transience you get when waiting for a train. Amazing job OP

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greatunknownpub t1_je9nd4y wrote

> Wyeth’s neighbor Anna Christina Olson inspired the composition, which is one of four paint­ings by Wyeth in which she appears. As a young girl, Olson developed a degenerative muscle condition—possibly polio—that left her unable to walk. She refused to use a wheelchair, preferring to crawl, as depicted here, using her arms to drag her lower body along. “The challenge to me,” Wyeth explained, “was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.”

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78455

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