Archive for December, 2009
Online art museum
0 Comments Published by Djelloul Marbrook December 16th, 2009 in Archives, Art, Art history, Libraries, Museums, Paintings, Photographs, Research.Pereira’s Rose Planes, 1945, is one of more than 108,000 images from the AMICA (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library). More than 20 museums participate in this project. Rose Planes is owned by The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.
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 [...]
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 [...]