Art appreciation on Federal Hill

 

Commentary and photograph by WILLIAM MORGAN

Christina Olson, the cripple depicted in Andrew's Wyeth's 1948 painting "Christina's World, '' has moved beyond the iconic, even beyond kitsch, to the commonplace – as ubiquitous as the "Mona Lisa ''or "Whistler's Mother''.

Still, her appearance as a bit of graffiti on a utility meter box is a bit jarring. A purple house with orange highlights in Luongo Memorial Square , in the Federal Hill section of Providence,  suggests that the neighborhood is having a renaissance. Or at least educated people who will get the reference are moving in.