Irene Rice Pereira

window.document.getElementById(’post-17′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Welcome to the official website of Irene Rice Pereira (1902-1971). I. Rice Pereira, as she was known, was one of the foremost modernist artists of the 20th Century. Her paintings can be found in museums around the world. The purpose of this website is to direct inquirers to her paintings, publications about […]

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 […]

Vacillating Progression, a Pereira oil on layers of coruscated glass is one of the artist’s best works. Displayed at The Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute
in Utica, New York,it ranks with such other Pereira masterworks as
Green Mass at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. There is hardly a better exemplar of the artist’s reputation than […]

Among a small group of art works donated by Sidney Mishkin to his alma mater, Baruch College, is Irene Rice Pereira’s Affluent Surface. Other paintings in this highly refined selection are Max Ernst’s Mother and Daughter, Barbara Hepworth’s Bimorphic, Marsden Hartley’s Mount Katahdin—Snowstorm, Alfred Henry Maurer’s Two Women and Girl in Grey, Georges Mathieu’s Festival […]

A 1964 Pereira oil painting, Light Extending Itself, is part of the Non-Objective Art exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition is itself part of the larger Modern Life exhibition on the 5th floor. Light Extending Itself is the gift of Howard Weingrow.
Pereira had a special connection to Brooklyn. She, her two sisters, brother and […]

The Pereira archive at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, is receiving a significant addition of documents and photographs.
Djelloul Marbrook, the artist’s nephew, recently discovered two boxes of papers and photographs overlooked in his initial donation of the Pereira papers to the Schlesinger.
The original papers were given to the Schlesinger after the artist’s death […]

Pereira’s “Study for a Rug” was exhibited May 11-August 19, 2007, at the new Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in the Oklahoma City Museum of Art as part of the exhibition, “Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968.” The Oklahoma City Museum bought the entire WGMA collection of 153 […]

Irene Rice Pereira’s Spirit of Space (1957) was included in the exhibition “femme brut(e)” September 14, 2006, through February 4, 2007, at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams Street, New London, CT, tel (860) 443-2545 (http://www.lymanallyn.org/exhibitions.html)