The woman in the painting was the neighbor of the painter. Wyeth was inspired when he saw her crawling across a field while he was watching from a window. Anna Christina Olson (1893 –1968) had a degenerative muscular disorder called "Charcot-Marie-Tooth" which left her unable to walk. The painting shows the landscape of coastal Maine. Wyeth once stated that he wanted “to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. If in some small way I have been