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In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Christina's World is one of the two paintings (the other one being Vincent van Gogh's Bridge at Arles) hanging on the living room wall of "an elegant, anonymous hotel suite" to which the astronaut David Bowman is transported after passing through the Star Gate. It does not appear in the film adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick. The painting is, however, part of the sci-fi film Oblivion (2013), paying homage to the novel.
The life of Olson and her encounter with Wyeth is portrayed in  the novel A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline.A scene in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and a chapter in the 2020 video game The Last of Us Part II were inspired by the painting.
The painting is also referenced in the 2020 film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, a season 4 episode of the TV series Atlanta, a Madeline Johnston song of the same name, and Ethel Cain's music video for the 2022 song "American Teenager".The painting appears several times throughout HBO's Westworld (2016–2022). Showrunner Jonathan Nolan has at least once mentioned Christina's World as a "reference" for the show's character Dolores Abernathy. Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Dolores in seasons 1–3, reappears in season 4 as a character named "Christina."
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