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 of Irene Rice Pereira and several of her peers. By 1955 many American artists, architects, and designers broke free of European precedents and developed distinctively American forms of modernism. Independent curator Susan Larsen looks at […]
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 at the Newark Museum called Constructive Spirit, Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s. The show opened Feb. 17, 2010, and closed May 23, 2010. Dr. Karen A. Bearor, Pereira’s biographer, contributed an essay […]
Pereira letter to Parker Tyler
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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 Library). More than 20 museums participate in this project. Rose Planes is owned by The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.
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, an Irish poet and close friend of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, had been Great Britain’s cultural attaché in Moscow during World War II. The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Welleseley College in Massachusetts […]
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 Avenue, New York City, in an exhibition called Explorations in Black and White: The 1930s through the 1960s. This painting has been reproduced frequently and was included in the seminal 1953 Loren MacIver/I. Rice Pereira […]
Rare Pereira Audio Interview
The Smithsonian Institution has a unique audio interview with Irene Rice Pereira conducted by Arlene Jacobowitz. It was made July 26, 1966, five years before the artist’s death in Marbella, Spain. She was living at the time at her long-time studio on the top floor of a brownstone at 121 West 15th Street and was […]
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 by Pereira will be shown with works by Rudolph Bauer, Hilla Rebay, Rolph Scarlett, Seymour Fogel, Mary Ann Strandell, Xanti Schawinsky, Victor Matthews, Peter Vogel, Daniel Villenueve and Gary Stephan. The show, which will continue […]
Women Artists
Women Artists by Margaret Barlow (Rizzoli, 2008, 328 pp) offers an insightful appreciation of Pereira’s career and a color plate of the rarely reproduced What Is Substance? Ms. Barlow is co-editor of the Woman’s Art Journal. The journal is associated with the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers. Pereira wrote extensively about the concept […]
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 interest to Irene Rice Pereira researchers. Pereira lived during her most creative years on Fifteenth Street just west of Sixth Avenue in Chelsea, the neighborhood just north of Greenwich Village where so much of those […]