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Irene Rice Pereira

Irene Rice Pereira (1902 - 1971) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / Spain.  Irene Pereira is known for Right angle geometric and modernist figure painting.

Irene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept.

She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together.

In 1942 she married George Brown, an engineer, who helped her experiment with a variety of materials. By the 1950s she became more int   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10099 characters.]  Artist bio

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