Irene Rice Pereira

Work by Irene Rice Pereira was included in Body, Line, Motion: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, New York from Jan. 10 to Apr. 11, 2010. This exhibition opened Friday, February 5, 2010 the same day the artist was featured in an exhibition in Manhattan at the new [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]