Pereira and peers at Detroit Institute

By Djelloul Marbrook

Mid-Century Modernism: Origins and Evolution, a lecture scheduled by the Detroit Institute of Arts at 6:30 on April 27th, 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 mid-twentieth-century painters, showing the ways in which they drew on the progressive political ideals of the 1930s, with a focus on artists represented in the Detroit Institute of Art collection, including Josef Albers, Pereira, Mark Rothko, and Vaclav Vytlacil. Pereira’s 1950 oil painting, Bright Beyond, will be featured. The presentation is sponsored by the Associates of the American Wing.