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Materials:

acrylic on canvas

Size Notes:

Canvas: 60 by 60 in. (152.4 by 152.4 cm.)

Edition:

Executed in 1981, Alcal softly hums with the rhythm of a distant memory. Although it is impossible to locate the precise memory that is buried within this work, Alcal, like much of her work, seems to refer to Truitts childhood in Maryland. In her celebrated Arundel paintings, that bear a certain resemblance to the current work, the white fields of paint become direct references to Truitts childhood, since the series title in fact comes from Marylands Anne Arundel County where she grew up. Thus, we might similarly begin to see in Alcals delicate geometry some trace of Truitts childhood. The angular white shape in the center of the canvas even bears a resemblance to the houses of Easton with their slanting rooves, which fascinated Truitt throughout her career. If we look at another work like Truitts 26 December 1962, No. 5 (1962) from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., we can see the silhouette of a house that is very reminiscent of the shape in Alcal. Furthermore, Alcal means fortress in Spanish, which suggests that we are in fact looking at some kind of architectural structure or even an Easton house, since, as Anne Wagner describes, Truitt later wrote that she thought of Eastons houses as forts, and the blankness of the paper reinforces a sense of their isolation in a nowhere that is hardly a place at all [emphasis added].??[3] The Easton house as a fort thus anchors Truitt in her past, since what is this nowhere that is hardly a place at all?? if not the hazy world of memory?

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Markings:

signed, titled and dated '81 on the reverse

Condition:

Framed: 61 by 61 in. (156.2 by 156.2 cm.)