Archive for the 'Beat Era' Category
The Pereira-Reavey collaboration
0 Comments Published by Djelloul Marbrook December 10th, 2009 in Archives, Art, Art history, Articles, Beat Era, Events, Greenwich Village, Libraries, Museums, Paintings, Publications, Research.I. Rice Pereira’s third husband, George Reavey, was the first translator into English of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Reavey, an Irish poet and close friend of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, had been Great Britain’s cultural attache in Moscow during World War II. The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Welleseley College in Massachusetts is [...]
Pereira in the Beat and Jazz eras
0 Comments Published by Djelloul Marbrook September 2nd, 2008 in Art, Art history, Articles, Beat Era, Galleries, Greenwich Village, Jazz Era, Museums, Paintings.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 [...]