▲ 53 ▼ PIC (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by Acamon@lemmy.world to c/nocontextpics@lemmy.world 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children) https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%27s_World permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago Beat me to it! Such a beautiful painting permalink fedilink source parent [–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago The woman in the painting is Anna Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 – January 27, 1968). Anna had a degenerative muscular disorder, possibly polio or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, which left her unable to walk.[1] She was firmly against using a wheelchair, so she would crawl everywhere. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when he saw her crawling across a field while he was watching from a window in the house. :-( Man, I'm glad that we figured out the polio vaccine. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago Beat me to it! Such a beautiful painting permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago The woman in the painting is Anna Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 – January 27, 1968). Anna had a degenerative muscular disorder, possibly polio or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, which left her unable to walk.[1] She was firmly against using a wheelchair, so she would crawl everywhere. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when he saw her crawling across a field while he was watching from a window in the house. :-( Man, I'm glad that we figured out the polio vaccine. permalink fedilink source parent
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