ART

The wind-swept Maine farm immortalized in Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Christina’s World” is up for sale at an asking price of $1.25 million. Apple Computer chairman John Sculley is selling the 15-room farmhouse in Cushing, Me., explaining that he lives in California and doesn’t have enough time to spend there. “Christina’s World,” Wyeth’s trademark painting, is a study in wistful isolation and profound silence that depicts the young Christina Olson sitting on a grassy field and twisting her body to gaze at the weathered hilltop house. It was painted in 1948 and belongs to New York’s Museum of Modern Art. During 39 summers in Cushing, Wyeth painted numerous watercolors of the 19th-Century clapboard Olson house.