Irene Rice Pereira

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 to [...]

Three White Squares, a 1940 Pereira oil painting, is 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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)