House with Melting Roof, Pomeroy, Ohio

Series Title: Iowa

1971

Nancy Rexroth

(American, 1946-)

Culture

America

Medium

gelatin silver print

Measurements

Image: 10.3 x 10.5 cm (4 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Paper: 20 x 25.4 cm (7 7/8 x 10 in.); Matted: 43.2 x 35.6 cm (17 x 14 in.); Framed: 44.8 x 37.1 x 3.2 cm (17 5/8 x 14 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Sharon & Del Zogg 2024.21

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Nancy Rexroth took this image with a plastic toy camera, the Diana, which imparts a dreamy look to its photographs.

Description

The Diana camera tends to vignette the scenes, darkening their edges, and offers a uniformly soft focus. In the 1970s, Ohio artist Nancy Rexroth used it to photograph the humble frame houses, rural landscapes, and homey interiors of southeastern Ohio. She sought subjective, rather than, objective or documentary images. Her goal, she said, was to portray “my own private landscape, a state of mind.”