COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
1890 circa
Title:
La Alma Sola
Title:
The Last Soul Left in Purgatory
Description:
Standing figure with long, dark hair and hands pressed together at the chest. Figure is clad in a long, multi-colored skirt featuring gold, brown, and black hues.
Note Fr. Steele:
"see Yvonne Lange 'Santos de Palo: The Household Saints of Puerto Rico' pp. 3-29; in Santos de Palo etc NY: Museum of Am Folk Art, 1991: fig 31, pp. 18 and 23-24; note that fig 31 is marked on tummy 'Anima Sola' apparently in pencil."|"I can't recall/reconstruct where I got the 'Anima Sola' reference in the Santero-Subject appendix of Santos and Saints 1974/1982--perhaps Jose E. Espinosa Saints in the Valleys? E. Boyd's santo-card notes in IFA [Museum of International Folk Art?]--or CSFAC? [Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center]
Location name:
Puerto Rico
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Purgatory
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Exhibition note:
Morrison, CO: The Fort, Tesoro Foundation Spanish Market, September 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Acquisition note:
1989, gift of Nancy Robb Briggs
Accession number:
RU0130
Measurements display:
19.8 x 5.7 x 3.3 cm
Santo Subject:
La Alma Sola (The Last Soul Left in Purgatory)
Santo Subject Type:
Other subjects
Patronage:
Patronage: probably a sort of patron of retaining baptismal innocence.
Note:
The last soul to remain in Purgatory after all others had been cleansed from sin and united with Christ in Heaven. See Lange, Santos de Palo, pp. 18 and 23-24 and fig. 31. A standing or kneeling-and-floating figure of indeterminate sex in a white robe with arms crossed on breast; something like a star in the background. A parti-colored skirt may be meant to represent the supposed flames of Purgatory.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED