I guess every house has its own personality, maybe some more than others. But the Olson house in Cushing, Maine has more than enough soul to go around. I don’t think I’ve ever photographed another house like it. Andrew Wyeth seemed to agree as he worked here for many years, coming back to the place again and again. His famous work Christina’s World was made here in 1948 and is one of Wyeth’s most famous paintings. Built in the late 1700’s the house stands today as a museum, owned by the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. I shot this image of one of the rooms several years ago and it shows how the oversized windows allow winter light to reach deep into the room illuminating the blue plaster walls and the primitive stencil work near the ceiling. Of these windows, Wyeth once said “in the portraits of that house, the windows are eyes, or pieces of the soul almost…” Right on.
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It really has its own character and when you add the events that happened inside, it appears to have even more "soul".
Great photo work.