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Burning Down the Second House
by Ann Toebbe

ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint from memory. I choose a place that I can recall in detail, like my parent’s home in Ohio or my grandmother’s farm in Indiana. I place everything as I remember it and render all the elements of the space up to the same level of detail, which allows me to include everything I want to remember about the room in one picture. I have discovered that combining minute detail with multiple viewpoints in the same flat surface results in a sort of folk-cubism, or maybe a skewed naturalism—which is what those memories feel like.

Living on the East Coast made me acutely aware of the aesthetics of my Midwestern upbringing. My experiences in New York and at Yale University cast my family’s home and lifestyle in a different light; a pragmatic, mundane (and rather flat) sense of beauty, unburdened by high ideas or refinements of style. The combination of my earlier working class tastes and the later-acquired, intensely cosmopolitan awareness of style has shaped who I am as a painter. I am influenced by Grandma Moses and Horace Pippin, Stuart Davis and Matisse. As historical precedents, I draw on the work of other female artists like Florine Stettheimer, whose paintings also fall somewhere between sophisticated and provincial. While my paintings are rigorous in purely formal terms of design, shape, space and color, they are also just pictures of home—kitchens, Catholic churches and farmhouses.

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Burning Down the Second House

by Ann Toebbe

archival pigment print
available framed

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    • 8.5"x11" 24
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    • 17"x22" 240
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    • 30"x40" 2400
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  • Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
  • Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper
  • Artist-signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
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These prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a matte finish.

The original is 18″×24," acrylic gouache on panel, and is available. Please email collector@20x200.com for more information.

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

We recommend a custom frame in black solid wood with UV protected plexiglass and a white archival mat. Please note: Framed art may take up to 4 weeks to ship. Available for U.S. orders only.

  • 8.5"x11" print offered in 14"x16.5" frame (3/4” front profile x 1 1/4” side profile)
  • 17"x22" print offered in 22.5"x27.5" frame (3/4” front profile x 1 1/4” side profile)
  • 30"x40" print is dry mounted and framed to the image (3/4” front profile x 2” side profile), with spacers and enhanced UV plexi glass

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