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Pereira’s Dissent from Abstract Expressionism Explored
This essay from the Neuberger Collection explores Pereira’s critique of abstract expressionism, which turned some of the leading critics of

Rare Youthful Pereira Photo
Rare informal photos of Irene Rice Pereira, Provincetown, MA, 1935, and her younger sister, Dorothy, Brooklyn, 1935; Pereira visited North

A Scholarly Look at Pereira’s Glass Paintings
The D. Wigmore Gallery in Manhattan has just mounted a small, highly focused and penetrating examination of Pereira’s works on

The Spirit of Unity
An art student introduces a video study of Irene Rice Pereira’s Spirit of Unity.

Painting on the Eve of a Breakthrough
This early (1939) geometric abstraction in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan was executed on the eve of her

Survey of Masterpieces by Guggenheim Artists
A sweeping 2017 survey of non-objective art at Leila Heller Gallery included Irene Rice Pereira’s Seven Red Squares, and rarely seen

Pereira at The Smithsonian
. This Smithsonian article and its links are well worth studying. They address Irene Rice Pereira’s absorption in the Bauhaus

“Shooting Stars” at the Met
Irene Rice Pereira’s masterpiece, Shooting Stars, is hanging in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of The Metropolitan Museum. In the

Welcome
Welcome to the official website of Irene Rice Pereira (1902-1971). I. Rice Pereira, as she was known, was one of

Pereira and Peers at Detroit Institute
Mid-Century Modernism: Origins and Evolution, a lecture scheduled by the Detroit Institute of Arts April 27, 2010, examined the work

Parchment painting in Newark show
A newly conserved parchment painting by Irene Rice Pereira, Composition In White, was among the works shown in an exhibition

Online Art Museum
Pereira’s Rose Planes, 1945, is one of more than 108,000 images from the AMICA (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium

The Pereira-Reavey Collaboration
I. Rice Pereira’s third husband, George Reavey, was the first translator into English of Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Reavey,

1940 Pereira featured at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.
Three White Squares, a 1940 Pereira oil painting, was on exhibit at The D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc., 730 Fifth
Rare Pereira Audio Interview
The Smithsonian Institution has a unique audio interview with Irene Rice Pereira conducted by Arlene Jacobowitz. It was made July

Pereira on West Coast
Champions of Modernism III, an exhibition of non-objective modernists, begins at Wendt Modern in Laguna Beach, California, May 9. Works

Women Artists
Women Artists by Margaret Barlow (Rizzoli, 2008, 328 pp) offers an insightful appreciation of Pereira’s career and a color plate

Pereira in the Beat and Jazz eras
Jim Burns, the English poet, is a scholar of the Beat and Jazz eras. He is for this reason of

A Rare Gem in Utica, NY
Vacillating Progression, a Pereira oil on layers of coruscated glass is one of the artist’s best works. Displayed at The
Pereira in Baruch College Gift
Among a small group of art works donated by Sidney Mishkin to his alma mater, Baruch College, is Irene Rice

Light Extending Itself
A 1964 Pereira oil painting, Light Extending Itself, is part of the Non-Objective Art exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum. This

New Schlesinger Documents
The Pereira archive at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, is receiving a significant addition of documents and photographs.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Pereira’s “Study for a Rug” was exhibited May 11-August 19, 2007, at the new Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center

“Spirit of Space” in Exhibition
Irene Rice Pereira’s Spirit of Space (1957) was included in the exhibition “femme brut(e)” September 14, 2006, through February 4,

