Blousey

The partially completed painting already included a vignette of the heads of Alice and her two siblings, from the photograph in Two Women, flatly painted in two colors, and the standing figure of Alice, in a blousey dress and a large hat, who with the faint modeling appears like a dimming memory.

She thinks of a child, an almost frail, very slender girl who wears lacey, blousey dresses, a wide bow around her waist, little white socks and white patent leather shoes.

She wore taupe jodhpurs and a white blousey dress shirt with rolled sleeves, and even at this distance, buried in pillows and peering through the ropes of the hammock, I could see the glitter of a diamond tennis bracelet on her wrist, along with matching diamond pendants hanging from her ears.