Collection Information
Size: 0.2 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of abstract artist Irene Rice Pereira measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1935 to 1970. The papers focus on Pereira's career as a lecturer and educator and include material relating to the Design Laboratory, lecture files and a piece of writing, as well as three letters by Pereira to others.
Biographical/Historical Note
Irene Rice Pereira (19021971) was an abstract artist, poet, and philosopher in New York City, New York. She studied at the Art Students' League and helped to establish the Design Laboratory of the Federaltion Technical School through the Works Progress Adminsitration.
Provenance
Material on reels D222-D223 lent for microfilming 1965 and material on reel 2395 donated 1965 by Irene Rice Pereira; material on reels 1296-1302, 1322 lent for microfilming, 1977 and reel 3470 donated 1978 by Djelloul Marbrook, nephew of Pereira. Additional material was microfilmed onto reel 3470 and donated by Harry Lowe, curator of National Museum of American Art.
Related Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds an oral history interview of Irene Rice Pereira conducted 1968 August 26-27, by Forrest Selvig, for the Archives of American Art.
Language Note
English .
Location of Originals
- Reel D222-D223 contain manuscripts; notebooks entitled "Concepts of Substance" containing notes, essays, quotations, a diary, and reviews; scrapbooks; and publications and was returned to Irene Rice Pereira after microfilming.
- Reels 1296-1302, 1322 contain Personal and business correspondence; notes and manuscripts of her many philosophical writings on light, space, and the infinite; poems by Pereira and by others; sales and loan receipts for her paintings; inventories of her paintings; paint formulas and technical data; biographical data; notes for the Design Laboratory of the WPA-Fine Arts Project; statements by her about her art and about the alleged suppression of her art by the Museum of Modern Art; exhibition catalogs; clippings; and photographs of her works and personal photos. This material was returned to Djelloul Marbrook after microfilming.
- This material is not described in the collection container inventory.