Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, painted in the 1940's, depicts his neighbor in Maine, Christina Olsen, crawling up a field of grass to reach her house. To me, this has always been such a portrait of dignity - the girl, seen from the back, seems so resolute. Nothing but her skinniest of arms hints at her crippling condition - her pose is not at all pathetic. She is simply looking straight ahead at her house on the hill as she slowly makes her way to it.

I live less than an hour from the Wyeth Museum and grew up with his beautiful art. Some more sophisticated critics relegate him to a minor role in art history as they claim he is too much like an illustrator than a fine artist, but others find much to appreciate in his "magic realism." I am among those who appreciate.

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