Lena Dunham is the latest visitor to Cushing to reenact the area’s — and probably Maine’s — most famous painting.
In a photo posted to Instagram, Sunday, the actor, writer, producer and director best known for the 2010s HBO series “Girls” and a friend struck the pose of the titular character in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” in the same grassy field as the original 1948 painting.
“First time back since Fernwood Cove Camp for Girls,” Dunham wrote in reference to the western Maine overnight camp, noting that Sunday’s sprawl in the grass came “with a thorough tick check afterwards.”
Andrew Wyeth painted scores of scenes in Cushing and neighboring towns during the three decades he lived there. “Christina’s World” features Christina Olson, a neighbor of Wyeth’s, seated on one hip in the grass, twisting away from the viewer toward her home in the background.
The mysterious image, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is Wyeth’s best known painting, and the original location — the field below the Olson House was recently opened to the public — has been a popular backdrop for reenactments.
