"WHO IS THIS WOMAN? Almost everyone knows her as the woman in the pink dress, half-reclining in a vast, open field, a field, a haunting figure immortalized in Andrew Wyeth"s celebrated painting CHRISTINA"S WORLD".".... Christina and the Olson house became famous because she posed for Andrew Wyeth..... I want to show that Christina was unique in her own right, that she should be remembered most for her brilliant mind, her humorous personality, her independent nature, and her dignity",(quoted in part from Jean Olson Brooks on the back cover of this book)