I. Rice Pereira
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irene Rice Pereira (born 1902, Chelsea, Massachusetts, died 1971, Marbella, Spain) was an American abstract artist, known for her work in the Lyrical Abstraction genre and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school.
Pereira was forced to begin work early in life as a designer to support her family after her father's death. In 1927, she enrolled in night art classes at the Art Students' League in New York City. Among her instructors were Jan Matulka and Richard Lahey. In 1931, she traveled to Europe and North Africa to further her painting studies.
In 1935, Pereira became one of the founders and first instructors at the Design Laboratory, a school patterned after the Bauhaus school.
Pereira's works are displayed at the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Phillips Collection, among others.
Irene Rice Pereira was married to commercial artist Umberto Pereira. She used the professional name I. Rice Pereira to avoid discrimination against female artists.
